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河 南 科 技 大 学 读 书 报 告 题目A Brief Analysis of Loneliness and the Unrequited Love of The Ballad of the Sad Café 浅析《伤心咖啡馆之歌》中的孤独与无私之爱 姓 名 段 文 昊 院 系 外国语学院 专 业 英 语 指导教师 任 培 红 2014年12月19日 A Brief Analysis of Loneliness and Unrequited Love of The Ballad of the Sad Café I. Introduction Unrequited love and loneliness are always the beloved topics for Carson McCullers, which combined with her own experience to make it more touchable and realistic. This essay is going to discuss the famous yet absurd loneliness and unrequited love in the story of The Ballad of The Sad Café and present my personal comments. 1.1 Introduction to the author Carson McCullers was an American writer of novels, short stories, plays, essays, and poetry. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the far South. McCullers’ oeuvre is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her southern roots. However, McCullers penned all of her work after leaving the South, and critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage work of her novel The Member of the Wedding, which captures a young girl’s feelings at her brother’s wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950 to 1951. McCullers published eight books; the best known are The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Member of the Wedding. The novella The Ballad of the Sad Café depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love. Although McCullers’s style is often described as “Southern Gothic”, she produced her famous works after leaving the South. Her eccentric characters suffer from loneliness that is interpreted with deep empathy. In a discussion with the Irish critic and writer Terence de Vere White she said, “Writing, for me, is a search