The Life And Death, Love And Hate Are Lonely Are Lonely

Carson McCullers is known as one of the most famous Southern writersin American literature. During her short life, she wrote five novels, twoplays and some essays. This paper concentrates on all five novels of CarsonMcCullers, which express the same topic as "loneliness".Carson McCullers spent most her life in loneliness. The sickishlifetime, the tragic marriage, the wandering life, and especially thebackground of Southern literature, all these factors affected CarsonMcCullers'creates deeply and shaped her feeling on loneliness. It washer unique style of personality and Southern heritage that made hercontinually depicting the theme of loneliness.In her first novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,everybody fails tounderstand each other. So when the protagonist suicides himself in theend of the story, the other four persons find out the god is absent andhelpless. Then in Reflections in a Golden Eye and the Ballad of the SadCafé, lonely characters always take sudden and frequent violence. TheMember of the Wedding also tells the story of a girl who experiences thepain of growing up and accepting loneliness. The last novel Clock withoutHands turns to rates problem in South America. And we can be aware of thetragedy fact that the persons are unable to bring order to a disorderedworld.Almost all the characters in her novels suffer from the same spiritualdisease which writer would call American disease. This is a disease ofconsciousness, which ultimately converting wishes into hopeless desires.By analyzing the history of the South and five novels, this papermainly discusses the reasons for people's loneliness and isolation, themotivation of the writer's writing as well as the contribution she hasmade.