How is the Crow a book about DESPAIR? The book can be compared with the word despair, because after the death of his wife the crow has no hope of living, his heart was broken. The scenes in the story are equivalent to the word despair, there are Some parts were his house is a mess and isnt taken care of, laying down looking into nowhere feeling hopeless without a chance of living life like he was with his wife. He feels mad and lonely, since she was his everything. Every night he sits in his house crying, and remorse of all the good times he had with her.