Born in Columbus, Georgia, McCullers grew up in a comfortable setting, for her father was a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweler. Since her childhood, McCullers had been full of creativity, demonstrated through both music and literature. As she aged and matured, writing became her true love and she established herself as a mainstream southern Gothic author when she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at only twenty-three. This title accurately describes the theme of the …showed first 75 words of 713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 713 total…s a greater understanding of others' feelings and emotions. Not everyone is able to find happiness in his or her life, and this book shows how one man can change so many peoples sadness', yet not be able to change his own. In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers illustrates the development of many characters in a small town society despite all of the racism, injustice and loneliness that existed in post-depression America.