![]() ![]() To me the most impressive aspect of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice as those of her own race. There are times when Miss McCullers deliberately suppresses the naturally dramatic in order to linger over and accentuate the more obscure, oblique and elusive emotions. “The naturalistic incidents of which the book is compounded seem to be of no importance one has the feeling that any string of typical actions would have served the author’s purpose as well, for the value of such writing lies not so much in what is said as in the angle of vision from which life is seen. All these characters and many more feel that the deaf mute alone understands them they assail his deaf ears with their troubles and hopes, thereby revealing their intense loneliness and denied capacity for living. ![]() The characters, Negro and white, are ‘naturals,’ and are seen from a point of view that endows them with a mythlike quality. ![]() “I don’t know what the book is about the nearest I can come to indicating its theme is to refer to the Catholic confessional or the private office of the psychoanalyst. ![]()
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