While Singer’s lonely friends project upon him the character of a wise, knowing, understanding man, Singer in turn imposes a similar personality on Antonapoulos. Just as these four impose their concept of Singer upon him, he has his own idol - his companion of 10 years, Spiros Antonapoulos. They never step out of themselves to discover that Singer listens, but he doesn’t understand, nor do they realise that he, too, is lonely and isolated - or why. They are drawn to him, as lonely people are to someone they believe will listen and understand. Linking this disparate group of outsiders is the ironically named John Singer, a man who cannot talk (or sing). Only 23 years old when she wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers captures the restless energy of adolescence and the loneliness and isolation of those who choose not to fit into their world - Mick Kelly, an artistic teenager whose titles and graffiti reveal a darker side to her personality Jake Blount, an itinerant socialist Benedict Mady Copeland, a consumptive black physician and Biff Brannon, sexually ambiguous owner of the New York Café. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Highly recommended.
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