![]() ![]() The story is based around a deaf-mute, John Singer, in an old mill town of the South during the 1930s. ![]() I still have the same copy I had from the summer before my senior year, which is still covered in scribbles of annotations and underlines.Īt just 23 years old, McCullers wrote this novel containing extremely complex and interesting figures. It was a required reading for my AP English Literature and Composition Class, so I thought it was going to be another novel that I skimmed through quickly at one in the morning the night before-hardly taking in any of the content, hoping I wouldn’t be quizzed on it the day I walked into class. The first time I ever really fell in love with a book was the first time I read “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers. “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” was Carson McCullers’ debut novel. The novel shares vignettes of the main characters through the lens of a man who does nothing but listen. Rarely do we recognize the impact all of our thoughts can have when they are being driven into the mind of someone else. We crave solace and will blindly share our soul to escape having the thoughts in our own mind. Yet, we fail to think about the person who is listening to us. It makes us recognize that what we really desire is someone who will listen to us, who will make us feel like they want to listen to us. ![]() “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” is a novel that truly makes you think about human behavior. ![]()
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