The fiction of McCullers focuses on the portrayal of physically distorted bodies. In particular thecharacters from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café represent a variety of physical anomalies. McCullers’ grotesque characters depict the loneliness of man and his incapacity to love each other. She portrays a dark and somber world devoid of sympathy, care, love and closeness in these novels that have no even a single normal character. This paper will also stretch the scope of the grotesque to refer to characters whose body, thinking and behavior depart from culturally sanctioned standards of normality.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter introduces themes that stay with McCullers throughout her lifetime and appear in all of …show more content…
She is not only one of the outstanding southern writers but an important and unique one in American literature. McCullers’ self imposed exile works well enough as a medium for her grotesque depictions. There is an overabundance of lonely outcast, confused and deformed characters in her fiction world like Singer, Amelia, Lymon and Marvin Macy are all deformed in one way or the other. Her expertise in portraying grotesque characters is evident from her very first novel;The Heart is a Lonely Hunter(1940), a story of two deaf mutes, Spiro’s Antonopoulos and John Singer. It also depicts the isolation of Singer and the effort of the other characters to break through to some kind of communication with …show more content…
The fictional world of McCullers’ is populated by numerous grotesque characters who are lonely outcast and weak. In the first novel she explores the lives of isolated grotesque in the American south. The focus of the story consists of a deaf mute and a lunatic who is also a dummy. All the rest of the characters move around these two grotesque central figures. Singer and Antonopoulos live in the shelter of loneliness and walk silently together hand in hand. The two mutes had no other friends and they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter introduces themes that stay with McCullers throughout her lifetime and appear in all of …show more content…
She is not only one of the outstanding southern writers but an important and unique one in American literature. McCullers’ self imposed exile works well enough as a medium for her grotesque depictions. There is an overabundance of lonely outcast, confused and deformed characters in her fiction world like Singer, Amelia, Lymon and Marvin Macy are all deformed in one way or the other. Her expertise in portraying grotesque characters is evident from her very first novel;The Heart is a Lonely Hunter(1940), a story of two deaf mutes, Spiro’s Antonopoulos and John Singer. It also depicts the isolation of Singer and the effort of the other characters to break through to some kind of communication with …show more content…
The fictional world of McCullers’ is populated by numerous grotesque characters who are lonely outcast and weak. In the first novel she explores the lives of isolated grotesque in the American south. The focus of the story consists of a deaf mute and a lunatic who is also a dummy. All the rest of the characters move around these two grotesque central figures. Singer and Antonopoulos live in the shelter of loneliness and walk silently together hand in hand. The two mutes had no other friends and they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed