Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is about a group of people living and feeling alienate in a southern town. Most of the character confide their secrets to a deaf and suicidal man named John Singer.
Two of the characters are androgynous. Biff is a bartender. He has an Oedipus complex, wants to be a mother, and wears his mother's wedding ring on his pinky finger. When his wife dies, he decorates their apartment.
Mick is the female protagonist. She is a tomboy at first, but then grows up. Mick is an artist and musician. She has transcendent experiences while writing or listening to music. One of the themes of this novel is "The Death of the Artist."
Mick's boyfriend Harry is Jewish, but not tradition. He is a Pantheist who hates fascism.
Jake Blout is the town drunk who makes Marxist rants and speeches while he is drunk. He runs an amusement ride.
Dr. Copeland is an African-American doctor who has Marxist names for children and is all about black power.
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