Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> by Carson McCullers.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter thrust Carson McCullers onto the literary scene at the age of 23. The year was 1940, and anticapitalistic fervor was at its peak. McCullers, familiar with the writings of Karl Marx, expresses in this novel her concern for the exploited classes, her disdain for a material...
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Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
2003
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| Online Access: | https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/791 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1948&context=etd |