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Last Updated on July 29, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 169
Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom and William Golding compiled Carson McCullers (Modern Critical Views) (1986) to provide a wide range of critical viewpoints for students of McCullers’s work. In addition to considering her career as a whole, the authors comment on individual works.
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In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee tells the story of eight-year-old Scout and her older brother Jem growing up in the South during the Depression. Their attorney father takes an unpopular stance when he agrees to represent an African-American man accused of raping a poor white woman.
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McCullers’s critically acclaimed The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the story of John Singer, a deaf-mute living in a southern mill town in the 1930s. The novel explores themes of loneliness, morality, and intolerance as it presents the lives of five characters.
Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie (1944) tells the story of the members of a southern family who are facing their individual problems along with the problems of modern life.
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