Fromm's solutions to alienation can only happen through an artfully union with others whether it is our family, our friends or just strangers who help us overcome our pain.
Moreover, Wide Sargasso Sea is a magnificent novel where two strangers who get married become alienated when they familiarize with each other. As Fromm explained, union by conformity is calm, dictated by routine, and thus insufficient to pacify the anxiety of separateness. As a consequence, their relationship is not very functional, having an ephemeral physical attraction that further separates them. Since the beginning of the relationship, they are alienated from each other. Antoinette, a Caribbean girl who grew up surrounded by hatred meets Rochester, a cold-hearted, greedy British boy who tries hard to get his father's approval. In Rochester's eyes, Antoinette is obstinate, stubborn but exotic. Although he thinks of her as a perverted woman who likes unconventional violent sexual relations, he is attracted by her behavior and enjoys it. Antoinette's obsession with his love turns into desperation when he is no longer interested in her. Rhys describes the pain that comes along with alienation. In Antoinette's case, she takes refuge in alcohol to try escape and forget her pain, whereas Rochester tries to forget his guilt and shame by cheating on his wife with Amelie, one of the servants. Likewise, Fromm described in The Art of Loving, that the failure to achieve interpersonal fusion means insanity and destruction (self-destruction, or destruction to others). Rochester destroys Antoinette with his indifference, and Antoinette destroys herself by excessively drinking. .
Furthermore, Spike Jonze in his science-fiction romantic film Her, represents the true love that sometimes separates two individuals because of the differences including sex, religion, race, or society's approval. In this case, love from two different worlds and perspectives.