Imagine you are the editor at a science fiction magazine & you read the following lines at the beginning of a?

Question

story: "The last man on earth sat alone in his room. Suddenly there was a knock at the door!" Can you change one word in the first sentence to make the man's isolation before the knock more complete?

Answer 1

the

Answer 2

"alone" turns into "bereft"

Answer 3

The last surviving man on earth sat alone

in his room.