There is Biff, owner of the New York Café, always watchful, always contemplating the same question as the faces go by: why?Įach struggles with feelings of isolation, the sense that no one shares their concern: this much they all have in common. There is Doctor Copeland, dignified and well-read, who engrosses himself in Black liberation through his studies and finds that he can no longer understand his children, his people. There is Jake, labor agitator, often seeking and never finding between bouts of drunkenness another who ‘knows’ as he does. There is Mick, tomboyish, dreaming of taking lessons so that she may learn to compose music. Set against the backdrop of a Depression-era mill town in Georgia, Carson McCullers’ “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” sees four characters, all alone, trapped in the jumbled series of wants, resentments, plots, worlds of their own making.
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