Analysis Of Carson Mccullers The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe

When she thought of what she used to imagine was God she could only see Mister Singer with a long white sheet around him. God was silent. Those who must tell all who seek transformation via the one who listens cannot see beyond their need to the loneliness of their priest. The selflessness of Singer moves out and encompasses his fellows, making them long for the solace of his quite spirit. The room in which Singer sits communicates stillness, acceptance, and peace. Townspeople come to him for renewal without heeding either their dependence or his personhood. They come face to face with the mute and meet them. McCullers writes of Jake: The mute’s face was in his mind very clearly. It was like the face of a friend he had known for a long time.

McCullers’ novel The Ballad of the Sad Café creates the lonely picture of an individual living in hopeless spiritual isolated southern town in a small rural area. The south used to be a rural area with its own different culture and a strong folk tradition preserved mainly through music and language. It will be discussed with how this image had to give way to the new reality of the south by the time of the 1940s. It had turned into an interchangeable urbanized society which excluded the individual who did not correspond to southern

McCullers sets the tone for the loneliness and isolation for creating a poetic and lyrical probing of isolation, loneliness, alienation and gender. Focusing on her work The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, it underlines that McCullers had always been questioning the national identity of 20th century American southern society. Carson McCullers published the book The Ballad of the Sad Café in 1943. The interpretation of the novel The Ballad of the Sad Café is going to highlight the main theme such as alienation and oppression. McCullers is most concerned about the spiritual isolation of the individual, the isolation which is deeply rooted within a person who does not fit into the narrow minded and prefabricate picture of the stereotypical southern society. McCullers concerns with the moral concepts of behavioral concepts in the 20th century. Her distinctive understanding of spiritual loneliness as inescapable human fate distinguished her from most of her