Mick willfully loses her virginity to Harry, the sensitive young brother of one of her classmates, when she realizes that her father's injury has permanently disabled him and she will have to leave school and go to work in order to help support the family. Feelings between Portia and her father become even more strained until Portia learns from Singer of Copeland's illness, and the two are reconciled. Meanwhile, Willie is jailed for defending himself against a group of white men, and subsequently he has a leg amputated after being placed in irons for trying to break jail. Although he takes his friend out for the day, Singer is more lonely than ever when he returns home. Following a successful attempt to win Mick's friendship by encouraging her love for classical music, Singer visits Antonapoulos, who is now suffering from a kidney infection.
Copeland's deepest disappointment is that his educated daughter, Portia, works as a domestic and is married to Willie Hamilton, a field hand. Copeland, an embittered segregationist Negro who is secretly dying of cancer. He also tries to establish a rapport with Blount, a semi-alcoholic drifter, and Dr. Because the Kellys' 14-year-old daughter, Mick, resents having to give up her room to him, Singer makes a few tentative efforts to win her friendship.
Kelly, who are having financial difficulties as a result of Mr. He finds work there and rents a room in the home of Mr. When his only companion, a retarded mute, Antonapoulos, is committed to a mental institution, Singer moves to another town in order to be near his friend. Copeland as social outcasts, we may deem them as nomads who offer new possibilities of desire to bring some change to their societies and finally set foot on the road toward becoming.John Singer is a deafmute who works as a silverware engraver in a small southern town. This new reading to unravel some overlooked aspects of McCullers first novel and entails that instead of considering McCullers characters including, Mick Kelly, Jake Blount, and Dr.
Through a new reading of McCullers’ characters, it is argued in this article that McCullers’ characters are more or less sites of vitalities as well as new possibilities and this can be made through Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy and his concepts including becoming, desire, and nomadism. However, a deep-down analysis of the characters in the novel along with a tinge of skepticism toward McCullers’ previous criticism makes it clear that her characters in this novel can be examined through new perspectives. Presumably, her characters include tomboys, false revolutionaries, and outcasts with eccentric worldviews. Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter has been characterized so far as depicting characters who are trapped in American south and display isolation and alienation.
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