Confusion At The Crossroads-an Exploration Of Uncertainty In The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers’ representative work The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter has caused aliterary sensation since its publication. Some voices powerfully criticize its loose structure,vague motifs as well as the anti-traditional ending. Different from the existing outlook onthese queries, this research attempts to scrutinize the novel from the perspective of MikhailBakhtin’s polyphonic novel theory, to be specific, from the characteristics of “authorialdecenteredness”,“dialogism” and “unfinalizability” via textual analysis approaching, so asto provide a possible explanation and to offer scholars and readers a fresh and reasonableinterpretation of uncertainty and confusion permeated in this novel. Eventually thisresearch signifies a fact that under the multi-voiced historical background of America, it isdifficult for McCullers to finalize The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.