Alone: An Isaac Bashevis Singer story that represents the course of his life

Alone must be one the first if not the first Isaac Bashevis Singer story set entirely in America - written in the 1960s (he'd been living in the U.S. for about 30 years) and in his 3rd story collection, Short Friday, by which time he'd earned a national reputation in the U.S. Story set in Miami Beach, and it feels very much like a dream sequence - certainly like one of my travel-anxiety dreams! - but I think there's far more to this story that a set of near-surreal images and conditions; in fact, I think it's a subtle and to a degree subconscious allegory about Singer's life and the life of a immigrant community: story begins in a decent hotel in Miami Beach at which the first-person narrator, a New York Jew like the author (though no back story), is the only "American" present - hotel filled with South Americans. He doesn't like the crowd and imagines the pleasure of being the only guest. Suddenly, word that the hotel has gone bankrupt and everyone has to check out immediately (at this time he realizes that the other guests are Jewish as well); narrator wanders streets and finds a very cheap, dingy hotel and checks in - the woman at the desk is a hunchback from Cuba, which seems to disturb him - and he is the only guest, perversely fulfilling his wish. He takes a long bus ride, terminating at some kind of commercial fishing pier where he watches them gut the fish; then rides back, has a large dinner that he didn't really want, and finds himself caught in a tremendous downpour. Runs back to the hotel, fearing him might drown in the puddles. Back in room, finds his mss and papers drenched and the room is wet; he strips off his wet clothes and lies on the bed. The desk clerk says she's scared of the hurricane and comes into his room; she sits on his bed, but he rejects her as he finds her homely and repulsive; she puts a curse on him. The next day, he leaves. Aside from the utter strangeness of these events, which make little sense except in dream-logic, you can maybe see the way in which this story touches so many Singer themes (the bewitching and dangerous powers of women) and in fact traces the course of his life: from a crowded and vibrant community to a "new world" and life of isolation amid a crowd; exploring the new world, and repulsion at the consumption of flesh (Singer was a vegetarian); then the sudden storm for which nobody was prepared (cf the Nazi invasion of Poland and the extermination of the Jews); the danger to his manuscripts (can he continue writing in America?), the seduction and the high-minded rejection of the woman because he is faithful to his wife - when he knows he would have accepted her had he been attracted to her - what does that represent? Moral and ethical hypocrisy? The rejection of temptation and the need to focus on the work of literature? Leaving behind the dybbuks and spirits of the shtetl - his earlier life, and his earlier writing - and turning more toward America, toward realism or naturalism, toward stories about relationships rather than legends about possession? The title of the story itself is a hint: the writer is always completely alone. As WC Williams put it, roughly: I was meant to be lonely/I am best so.