1. Literature Review

  Carson McCullers is famous for her personal experiences and her deep understanding on human life. She has been always popular among readers. Scholars are attracted  by her unique perspective, the freaks, the alienated and the mystic American Southern town in her works. Carson McCullers has been a pain for the critics since her first publishing work The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in 1940. The bitter controversies she triggers involve a wide range of subjects from her status, themes, forms, strategies, to the social and political aspects of her works.

Louis D. Rubin Jr. draws on McCullers’s personal situation such as her illness, marriages, bisexuality, and her Southern experience to make a better understanding of her work. Mc Cullers receives praises for her construction of her art “out of the South, but not out of its history” (Rubin Jr. 123). Gleeson-White explores The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as a work of southern gothic tradition and McCullers’ characters as grotesques (Gleeson-White,3).