The Existence Predicaments Of Carson McCullers’ Works

Carson McCullers is a typical representative of the important writers of America in the20thcentury. She was tortured by the pains of the whole-life illness and backgrounded by thesouth of America that why she loved writing the loneliness, isolation and alienation of thesouthern people in all her works. Her main five novels are the most famous: The Heart Is aLonely Hunter; Reflections in a Golden Eye; The Ballad of Sad Café; The Member of theWedding; Clock without Hands. She has twice won the Guggenheim Fund Award and oncewon the New York Cool Critical Boundary and the Drama Club Bonus, some of the workswere adapted into a movie or drama, which made her has a broad impact in the world. Sherevealed all sorts of southern American’s existence predicaments by writing the ordinarypeople and things gently with her imagination.This paper is founded by the Existential Thoughts and aims to read the reason and deepmeaning of all the predicaments with the author’s experiences and provoke an existencetheme that life is suffering. On the other hand, the paper analyzes the inner exploration andexternal salvation of McCullers’s efforts of surviving from the predicaments by dream, love,faith and return to the nature.The paper is composited by three parts: the introduction, body and conclusion. The bodyis divided into four sections. The first section explores the sources of McCullers writing theexistence predicaments from the external factors that the postwar of US and the uniquesouthern tradition’s impacts and the internal factors of the anthers’ personal background andown experiences. The second and the third sections introduce the internal and externalpredicaments and analyze the deep reasons and provoke modern people to rethink their livingcondition and difficulties. The last section of the paper analyzes the self exploration andsalvation of McCullers’ novels which guides the modern people’s mental effort directionwhen they face the same predicaments.