Interpretation Mccullers Novel, Sex Deviants

Carson McCullers is one of the most prominent writers in American Literature. In her short life, she wrote five novels, two plays, twenty short stories and many essays and verses. Among these, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflection in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of Sad Caféand The Member of the Wedding are very famous. Take a wide view of McCullers's novels, the writer created a new type of rebel, a transsexual and transgender image. By the reason of her special experience, McCullers's comprehension in a sex and gender marginal image is deep, when comes to the character of this type, she is so concentrated and trenchant, so rich at the drama conflict.In McCullers's worlds, both men and women are the result of a contradiction between masculinity and femininity. By employing gender and psychoanalytic theory, this article analyzes the course of the transsexual and transgender image. Fist, this article analyzes the tomboys in the context of oppressive southern womanhood in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding. The changing female adolescent body becomes a grotesque body, which challenges the very notion of southern woman. Facing the conflict between serious ambition and the pressure of conventional southern womanhood, the young girls have to accept the society's demands for ideal womanhood. The vision of potential and hope that the lost tomboys will survive and resurface is reflected in the conclusion of the novels. Next McCullers's fascinating struggle to depict homosexual desire in The Reflection in a Golden Eye and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is analyzed. After experiencing flight from woman, grotesque pleasure and feminization of the virile body, the queers choose death to make their dreams come true. McCullers reveals that both femininity and masculinity are powerful, and creates new pleasures. Finally, McCullers's portrayals of transvestism in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Caféare examined. By the two techniques at work in the gendering process—suspension and foregrounding—which produce gender as a kind of volatile performance, which disavows and notion of original gendered identity.When reveling the sex and gender crisis, McCullers seemed to be some pessimistic. McCullers's novels display a new tendency of western society, that is, seeking absolute freedom of individual life, rejecting all prescriptive rules, including those on sex. But she described it in extremes so as to arouse attention from readers as well as the society. It is a humanitarian topic to admit the variety of gender and sex live with dignity.