Eloise refused to have hope in order to prevent disappointment

In "Uncle wiggily in Connecticut" by JD Salinger, Eloise’s cynical because she lost everything that’s important to her in the war, included herself. She felt disappointed toward her life, so that she refused to have hope in order to prevent disappointment. In results, Ramona started to have imaginary friends to escape from the reality. Ramona has some similarity with Sybil in some ways. They both escaped from their irresponsible mom to someone else. Ramona chose her imaginary friends Jimmy and Micky.