On The Image Of The Loner In Truman Capote's Novels

Truman Capote is one of the southern American writers in the 20 th century.Due to his personal growth experience and the special social environment after the war,Capote showed a strong sense of loneliness in his novels in the first and middle period,forming a unique image of the loner.In the image of the loner,Capote highlights the role of the story space in shaping the character's soul.In the weird rural space and the absurd urban space,he portrays the loner with different images,showing the loneliness that people perceive in different periods and fields.In the weird rural space,Capote narrates the growing predicament of the lonely youth,and forms a kind of image of the rural loner represented by the lonely youth.The lonely characteristics of lonely youth are mainly reflected in the fragile sensitivity of temperament,the isolation of spirit and the lack of self-identity.On the surface,the loneliness of lonely youth stems from the broken family and the unavailability of love,but in fact,loneliness is the regional temperament of the south of America.Capote shows the declining process of the old southern culture through the confrontation between the new and old geographical landscapes,completes the image of the loner,and symbolizes the destruction of the Southern Myth with the loner's departure and rebellion against the south.In the absurd urban space,Capote narrated the spiritual dilemma of the young people wandering in the city,and formed a kind of image of urban loners represented by the young people in the town.The lonely characteristics of young people in small towns are mainly manifested in the lack of sense of belonging,the emptiness of emotional life and the aimlessness of life.On the surface,the loneliness of young people in small towns is caused by the indifference of human feelings in cities,but in fact,after the excessive expansion of material civilization,the consumer society has realized the alienation of modern people's self.In shaping the image of urban loners,Capote highlights the alienation of modern material civilization to human spiritual world through the opposition between urban external space and internal space,and breaks the illusory urban myth through the re escape of urban loners from the city.Capote's loners are loners in action.The action of "seeking and escaping" of the loners forms a circular narrative structure at the narrative level.Meanwhile,the repeated action of the loners reveals the essential loneliness and the absurdity of life.In the face of the absurdity of eternal life cycle,the loners can escape from the cycle with courage and courage after many times of failure,and can enter the search again with hope.When the loners see through the ineffectiveness of "the salvation of love" in modern society,they can also face the unknown in life actively,get rid of the shackles and shackles of social relations,realize the importance of reconciliation between self and loneliness,and realize resistance to loneliness in action.