| 英文摘要 |
In the action of Carson McCullers' first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, its Christ figure, . John Singer the deaf-mute, has been conceived as an all-comprehending mind through whose patient listening each of the other major characters expresses his heart's longings. Yet Singer himself has suffered no less intense loneliness than his fellow characters. After the death of his beloved friend Antonapoulos, Singer takes his life in a rented room. For his fellow characters, all hope of slavation, of even temporary release through empathetic union with a listening mind, has gone to the grave with him. The negativism of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter thus subsists in its basic deniai of redemption. Yet in spite of such negativism, Singer still emerges as a sympathetic character who dies of love's excess (Tseng, 'Love and Loneliness' 240-252). |
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