Love is Selfish and Lonely In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers uses each character to represent the relation between love and desperation rooted in deep loneliness. McCullers creates a city filled with realistic personas that help to symbolize different ideas such as the loneliness of passion and the acceptance of conforming. Using these characters, McCullers also compares love and desperation to the ideology of religion in a such way that displays criticism. By the end of the story, this type of love derived from isolation is proved unnecessary through the death of John Singer. The author uses the complexity of the human persona in order to create symbols that represent the human condition of love and its roots in loneliness.
McCullers uses each of the character’s conflict between societal expectations and their actual personality in order to display the …show more content…
After looking for and not finding someone similar in viewpoints and character, Copeland, Blount and Mick all project their ideas and passions onto John Singer and see him as someone who understands their feelings and mentality. Even some of the characters compare Singer with Jesus. For example, during a conversation with John Singer at a table, Blount states “Me and Jesus would sit across the table and I would look at him and he would look at me and we would both know that the other knew” (McCullers 189). This idea of religion in the novel can be related to the human condition and people’s need for acceptance. After not finding acceptance or purpose, people projected onto the idea of a God. With a God there is no definitive viewpoints or feedback, because of this everyone is able to view the same God a completely different way, similar to the way the main characters project onto John
McCullers uses each of the character’s conflict between societal expectations and their actual personality in order to display the …show more content…
After looking for and not finding someone similar in viewpoints and character, Copeland, Blount and Mick all project their ideas and passions onto John Singer and see him as someone who understands their feelings and mentality. Even some of the characters compare Singer with Jesus. For example, during a conversation with John Singer at a table, Blount states “Me and Jesus would sit across the table and I would look at him and he would look at me and we would both know that the other knew” (McCullers 189). This idea of religion in the novel can be related to the human condition and people’s need for acceptance. After not finding acceptance or purpose, people projected onto the idea of a God. With a God there is no definitive viewpoints or feedback, because of this everyone is able to view the same God a completely different way, similar to the way the main characters project onto John