Jade Kim

In the movie, Whiplash! The main character, Andrew lives in seclusion. He does not get along with very many of the others of his age, nor does he get along with his family. To be fair, it's not really his fault. He can barely hold a conversation over the dinner table with them.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppJIxjLnpM

The family does not understand him and treats him like an outsider. They treat him as a lesser being than his cousins that are in college playing football and living the "accepted" lives of their own. 

Instead of blaming them, complaining to the world, or going a different direction, he takes a different response. He practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEOWgZ4m-k

He practices to show his teacher that he can be as good, or even better than what he demands. He practices to show his parents that he can truly be great. And he practices to prove to himself that he can be a Great.

Some people might say that is super scary, and he's only hurting himself, but he is a musician. People say anyone can be an expert with 10,000 hours dedicated to the field, but it is going to take a lot more than that to be an expert musician. Practicing is an extremely delicate, self-motivated, and effort-consuming experience that can only be achieved in solitude. But when Andrew has endured the long and painful process, he now achieved this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzWk00x51A

The solitude of Andrew resembles the one of Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter in that neither of their seclusion are self-imposed. They are both struggling through, and are living what might appear awful lives. But they both have one thing that helps them put their feet down on the ground. For Andrew, it is music. For Hester, it is Pearl.

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is described as: "In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it" (58). This especially reminds me of Andrew not getting along with anyone else. Never feeling right at home, never feeling as if they belong to anything. But maybe it is that that made them more devoted to the one thing they loved the most in the world.