The Analysis Of Clown Images In Crason McCullers’s Novels

Crason McCullers is one of the most important writers in the20th American Literature. She portrayed many deformities and abnormal clown characters in her novels. These clowns have some features of traditional clown, but they are different from the traditional clowns entirely.On the whole, clowns of Crason McCullers’s novels can be divided into following three categories:Anti-hero clowns, stupid clowns and pessimistic clowns. The first category, they are in the bottom of society and suffer from poverty, so their resistance looks like a farce. The second, their ethics and values do not match with the society, so they are not recognized by the people. The last group of characters, with more confusion and pessimism, they always couldn’t find their place in a changing society.These clowns have certain metaphorical color. It is reflected in the following aspects. The first is the metaphor of religion. This mainly refers to the spiritual crisis experienced by the people with the decline of religion in the southern United States. Second is the metaphor of moral. U.S. Southern family relationships began to disintegrate in the old and the new ethical conflicts. Finally, there is the metaphor of self-missing. The author shows us the people’s living condition and mental condition through a variety of clown image in the value generally missing years.Crason McCullers depicts the clowns from the three aspects of religion, morality and self-missing in her novels. At the same time, this is a process of deconstruction of the South God. She shows us a wilderness picture. Meanwhile, Crason McCullers is also working to establish a true South. She tries to linked those people who spiritually homeless together through compassion and love in order to jointly build a harmonious and beautiful spiritual home.