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and clothes. John Allan had, at different times, refused to pay Poe’s debts. He was forced to work in a job he didn’t want, and eventually John Allan disowned him permanently.
The male figures in his life were not the only ones to cause Poe grief. Poe also had disappointments with the women in his life, not with rejection but with death. Throughout Poe’s life the women that he loved died at an early age, starting with his birth mother. Poe lost several women in his life, all of which caused him pain.
Poe survived many tragedies in his life may have made Poe a very guilty and fearful. Those feelings might account for the methods he used as an escape. Throughout the adult years of his life, Poe was know to be a drinker and gambler. It was a way for him to escape the realities of his life. Perhaps his writing was also a method of escape for him. In his works, he may have found a world that allowed him to be undisturbed by the realities of his life.
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