On The Emotion Analysis Of Carson Mccullers In The Novel

Carson McCullers is one of the most important writers in the 20th American Literature. She was involved with curses and disease all her life. However, she committed her limited life to all her works, and was honored as one of the sparkling symbol of American Southern Literature. Therefore, by the study of her works, we could understand the writer and her significance in the development of American literature.McCullers is featured by her sensitivity, which leads to all the complicated forms of passion filling her works. Besides, the forms of her passion style are more than that between different genders. They are inclusive of homosexual and bisexual and others. In this paper, the writer discusses these three forms of passion in her novel, making use of the Gender Theory and Queer Theory, as well as McCullers' living experience.This paper consists of four parts. The first part is a short introduction of McCullers's biography, literature value and major works. Other than that, the writer accomplishes the collecting and analyzing of comment, illustrating and studying on McCullers's works. Based on these, the writer portrays the different features of different periods.The second part consists of three branches: loneliness and disability of love, presentation of passion between different genders, and the study of "two genders in one body" phenomena.The third part is focused on the image of teenagers (especially the maids) in McCullers's works, and the analyzing of their passion experience. Besides, this part gives a deep illustration of the difference between Mick from The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Frankie from The Member of the Wedding, according to McCullers's own childhood memory. The major process is: from Mick's unconscious pursuing of love, to Frankie's ideal pattern (brother, bride and herself), and then, to the deconstruction of this ideal. The whole process is the discovery of teenager's growing situation and their inner world.The fourth part is connected with the Gothic Wind famous in the Southern Literature at that time, which gives a hint of the homosexual complex. By means of classifying feeling and passion of different individuals, this part infers the deep thought about experience and situation shared by all the human beings in McCullers's works, even under their absurd masks.