and the frailty of the human heart."

Of all the characters in the work of Carson McCullers, the one who seemed to her family and friends to be most like

the author herself was Frankie Addams: the vulnerable, exasperating, and endearing adolescent of The Member of

the Wedding who was looking for the "we of me." However, Carson once said that was, or became in the process of

writing, all the characters in her work. This is probable true of most real writers who often with pain draw from their

unconscious what the rest of us would just as soon keep hidden from ourselves and others. So accept the fact that

Carson was not only Frankie Addams but J.T. Malone, Miss Amelia, and Captain Penderton; but familiarity with the

work that she was not able to finish would only be only a partial clue to who and what she was. This was not simply

because she had not finished what she had to say, but that she was the artist, and as she often quoted, "Nothing

So many people were unable to acknowledge Carson's constant closeness to death, and many more resented her for

trying to make them face it, but she ha

wrote with such incredible handicaps, but that she wrote was beautiful and real to those of us who are willing to go

According to the legends that surround her early period in the city, she first established her residence, quite

other talent- writing. She studied with Sylvia Chatfield Bates and later with Whit Burnett, who with Martha Foley

James Reeves McCullers, his death followed by that of Carson's mother and favorite Aunt, as well as other difficult

her but whether or not readers who admire her work find it rewarding.

movies of Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter we!

with her to explore the human heart. What matters about her work is not that is has been difficult for those around

re in production. She had many friends who loved her, but more important a few whom she really loved back.

There were invitations to presidential inaugurations and teas with Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe, and her long

she was being shown the subway route to the Juilliard School of Music, the companion and all of her tuition money,

appreciation to a group of her Mother's friends. Once in the city she gave up music as a career and turned to her

Stevens, prose-writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Katharine Anne Porter, has not been

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