The Heart is a Lonley Hunter By Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers, 'The Heart is a Lonley Hunter'  captures the very aspects of the human heart, the human need for understanding and compassion. Based in the 1930's Mill town in the US state of Georgia. The tale revolves around a lonely deaf-mute, John Singer, isolated from the rest of the world in his own sileint sphere draws an unusal and desparate group of people to him.
 An owner of a cafa', Biff Brannon, who struggles with an unsuccesseful marrage to Alice Brannon now known to him as Misses Brannon who fomallity isolates him from her creating a barrier between them, an angry black doctor, Doctor Copeland who has made many personal sacrifices to devote his entire life's work to furthering the education and uplift of the black community. As a young man he went to the north to get a college education, before returning back to the south to improve the condions of the black community. Dr. Copeland feels a constant frustration with what he perceives as the ignorance of black people and their blind acceptance of an inferior societal position—a clear parallel to Jake Blount's (a drunked who also turns to Singer ) frustration with the ignorance of lower-class workers. Jake is a wanderer who harbours confused and passionate plans for a socialist revolt, spending almost all his time at Biff Brannon's New York Café. When Jake meets Singer and decides that Singer, like him, "knows" he stays in town and comanders a job at a local carnival. Of all the characters, Jake is the most prone to violent outbursts and genuine mental instability—his speech is never constant in tone, changing from intellectual to crass to boisterous to rage at a moment's notice. He is constantly consumed with his desire to see workers rise up in revolt; the only time he ceases to think about how to achieve his misguided socialist reforms is when he drinks himself into a stupor.
A young girl Mick Kelly is almost a persona of McCullers herself who had serious ambitions of becoming a concet peonist, music symbolizes Mick's energy and her pursuit of beauty; she stores it in the "inner room" of her mind, to which only she and Singer have access. The fact that Mick is a child at the beginning of the novel provides McCullers the opportunity to portray the funny and poignant moments that accompany Mick's coming of age. She is the symbol of the working class poverty showing that you have to grow up quick to survive.
Carson McCullers wrote 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' between 1937–1940 in New York and Charlotte, written in the annonymous omniscient third person narrative, making the reader experience the idea of floating above each charater giving them a unique view. This book was brilliantly written, I would definitely read it again and give it seven stars!!!