![]() ![]() ![]() Mick Kelly, a young teen girl whose parents run the boarding house, aspires to leave the shabby mill town and see the world. The four other characters in the story are equally lonely, but each find their way to Singer and find in him someone who listens to them (he reads lips). ![]() Singer loses the only person with whom he can communicate openly, and he is thrust into silence. The central character is John Singer, a deaf-mute, whose best friend, roommate and fellow deaf-mute has a breakdown and his family sends him to an asylum. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the story about loneliness and isolation, as situated in a small Massachusetts mill town in the Great Depression. Beauty, truth, the human spirit, artistry-yes. I want to say that I am glad I did, which is true, but The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was full of such pathos and sorrow that it feels ingenuous to associate reading it with anything resembling joy. My last trip to the library, I decided to rectify that vacancy in my knowledge. Somehow, I made it through an English major with multiple courses and a lifetime devotion to southern literature without reading Carson McCullers. ![]() The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, Houghton Mifflin, 1940, 359 pp. ![]()
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