The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Lula Carson Smith was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to Marguerite Waters Smith and Lamar Smith, owners of a jewelry shop. The girl's first drea...
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In the following review, Feld provides brief character descriptions and a plot synopsis of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
No matter what the age of its author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter would be a r...
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In the following essay Budick discusses how different characters in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter strive to develop both verbal and sexual intercourse with others.
Like her predecessors in the romance ...
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In the following review, Creekmore faults McCullers' later works for not measuring up to the standards of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
The appearance of an "omnibus�...
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In the following essay, Durham discusses the plot of The Heart of a Lonely Hunter, praising the allegorical aspects of the novel and its rebellion against religion and tradition.
That The Heart Is a L...
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In the following essay, Millichap discusses the structure and genre of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Carson McCullers produced before her death in 1967 a small but impressive body of fiction: The Hear...
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Critical Essay by Nancy B. Rich
Although Carson McCullers referred to her novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as "an ironic parable of Fascism," critics have not taken her statement ser...
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Critical Essay by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
I think it is not without importance that the all-night restaurant in Carson McCuller's first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, is called The New York C...
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Critical Essay by Louis B. Salomon
Around the pivotal character of John Singer, a deaf-mute, and around the theme of man's vital craving for a sympathetic, understanding confidant, Miss McCulle...
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Critical Essay by Frederic Carpenter
With greater complexity and greater realism, although perhaps with less art [than J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye], Carson McCullers embodies [the] ...
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Critical Essay by Gore Vidal
It is hard to believe that twenty-one years have passed since The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, the first novel of Carson McCullers, was published. For those of us who arrived...
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Critical Essay by Richard Wright
With the depression as a murky backdrop, ["The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"] depicts the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon...
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In the following essay, Evans discusses The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as an allegorical novel.
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The novel on which Mrs. McCullers had started to work during the year she was ‘resting’ in...
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In the following essay, Paden contends that by examining the autistic hand gestures of the five main characters in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, “we will see how their hands reveal the alienati...
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In the following essay, Perry investigates McCullers's 1936 short story, “Wunderkind,” as the origin of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and surveys the autobiographical aspects of th...
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In the following essay, Carr discusses thematic and stylistic aspects of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Carson McCullers worked on the manuscript that eventually became The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter und...
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In the following essay, Whitt views the character of John Singer as a Christ figure in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
“I've lost the presence of God!” cried the author of The Heart...
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In the following essay, Bradshaw analyzes John Singer's relationship with the other main characters in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, focusing on how Singer's status as a deaf-mute affect...
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In the following excerpt, Graver asserts that not only is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter “an admirably complete introduction” to McCullers's themes and subject matter, “but i...
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In the following essay, Knowles places The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter within the context of American literature around the time of World War II.
We are dogged by coincidence. As this essay is written, C...
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In the following essay, Millichap provides a structural analysis of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in order to illustrate the psychological and social realism of the novel.
Carson McCullers produced bef...
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In the following essay, Cook offers a thematic and stylistic examination of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just w...
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In the following essay, Rich investigates the role of politics in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and perceives the novel as a political parable.
Although Carson McCullers referred to her novel, The Hear...
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In the following essay, Rubin asserts that many of the main thematic concerns in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter are drawn from McCullers's own life.
I think it is not without importance that the ...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1979, Spivak offers a feminist interpretation of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
We are in trouble over sex, race, and class. Any intellectual, any reader...
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In the following essay, McDowell delineates the defining characteristics of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
I. Isolation as Man's Fate
The principal theme of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), ...
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"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about." This quote by Anton Checkov explains how people always want someone to talk to about their ...
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Teaching The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Lesson Plans contain 145 pages of teaching material, including:
By all accounts—most notably the amusingly disenchanted commentaries by Caryn James, David Carr and Paula Schwartz in The New York Times—this year’s Oscars will be considerably le...
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Critical Review by Rose Feld
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Times May Have Changed, But Oscars Still Suspenseful
