Musicality In The Works Of Carson Mccullers

Carson McCullers is one of the representative writers of Southern America. Shesuffered from her diseases all the time, the ambiguity in gender and volatile marriagedeepened her perception on loneliness and longing for love and communication.Therefore, most researches have focused on the theme of spiritual isolation in herworks, and few have discussed the influence of her early musical education on herwork.This paper has discussed the style, content and form of her works from theperspective of musicality. The introduction reviews the literary criticism home andabroad, discusses the impact of music on the writer and the research method. The firstpart discusses the multiple meanings of music–songs of the confined whites, songs ofthe oppressed blacks and their integrations. The author finally composes an equal andfree utopian. The second part studies the application of ternary form and fugue formin her work. These narrative structures have foregrounded spiritual separation, racialseparation and other multiple themes. The last part points out that musical settingscreate an anxious and scared mood in the shadows of the Second World War;meanwhile it creates a synchronized rhythm as basically pathetic with transientbrightness, showing a diverse atmosphere of the coexistence of the poetic and thegothic; lastly it inserts into the lengthy dialogues as a syncopated rhythm to avoid theinsipid of narrative rhythm. All these discussions show that the author applies musicto tell the tale and also applies the tale to tell music. In the tale, music is not only away for sensual experience and emotional catharsis of individuals, but also thecarriers of the sounds of era and nation; meanwhile, musical elements enrich contentand form of the tale.