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Masters Degree Dissertation of Chongqing University Contents CONTENTS 中文摘要I Abstract II Contents………………………………………………………………………………………….III Introduction 1 Chapter One Loneliness: A Theme Repeatedly Represented in McCullers Writing 5 1.1 The Influence of Life Experience on McCullers’ Writing of Loneliness 5 1.2 The Influence of Literary Tradition on McCullers’ Writing of Loneliness 12 Chapter Two The Theoretical Basis of the Thesis 15 2.1 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard’s Philosophy on Loneliness 15 2.2 Fromm’s Neo-Psychoanalytic Theory on Loneliness 17 Chapter Three The Loneliness Represented in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 23 3.1 Social and Political Cause of the Loneliness in that Time 23 3.2 The Main Character’s Loneliness and Their Fight Against Loneliness24 3.2.1Mick Kelly: Teenagers Loneliness as a Tome Boy 24 3.2.2 Dr. Copeland: Loneliness Arose from Racial Dscrimination 27 3.2.3 Jake Blount: Loneliness of the Awakening Working Class 31 3.2.4. Biff Brannon: Loneliness of the Marginalized Social Observer 33 3.2.5 Mr. Singer: Loneliness of the Home-made God 36 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………38 Acknowledgements 41 Note 42 References 42 III Masters Degree Dissertation of Chongqing University Chapter one: introduction Introduction As one of the best American southern female writers, Carson McCullers is considered to be a member of the Southern gothic tradition in American literature. (Hoffman, 1967, p.357) When she died in 1967 she left the world four full-length novels, one medium-length novel, two dramas, twenty