why did the old man want to eat alone in his room?
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Answer:
he is hungry I think or ghost.
Explanation:
Lauren’s mom died in late summer, leaving her father a widower, and living alone for the first time since he got out of the Navy after Vietnam. In the first flow of grief and sympathy, relatives and friends brought over food, as people do. People from the church made casseroles. Soups and stews filled his fridge and freezer. But as the leaves began to fall, life intervened for most people, as it does. The food dwindled as the days grew shorter, and Lauren became more and more worried for her father.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to cook. Quite the opposite: for as long as she could remember, her dad was the primary chef in the house. He loved it. He loved making food for people. But with her and her brothers long since moved out and his beloved wife gone, he had no one to cook for. No one to share the joy of a meal with. Lauren would bring over food as much as she could, afraid that her dad wouldn’t eat right otherwise. She was right in worrying. Suddenly being forced to eat alone is a major cause of senior depression, and her dad was particularly susceptible to it. She and her brothers had to come up with a plan to combat it, but first she had to show them that depression was different from just being sad.