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Hell is other people
Even though Cary professes to salute the LW's independence, he doesn't quite seem to buy that the LW truly is happy being alone. His response implies that it is only due to the LW's reduced (in his view) circumstances that being alone happens to be the lesser evil of the alternatives currently available to her. In my view, the "concern" people tend to express about friends and family who choose to be alone is too often nothing more than a disguised expression of their own anxiety about being alone. The "concerned" people are the ones to be pitied--always scrambling for something to do, someone to be with. The person who is content with her own company is truly better off.