carson mccullers
Having lived a difficult life made Carson McCullers a very strong minded person. Born into a highly respectable family with moderate means, she received an opportunity to play the piano at a very young age. McCullers was the oldest of three children that were born to highly regarded jewelers. At a tender age of seventeen she was diagnosed by doctors as having "pneumonia with complications", but later was found to have rheumatic fever. Her Grandfather owned two thousand acres that had 75 slaves keeping it active. These acres were ruined by a fire while her grandfather was still alive and well (Magill, Survey 1212). She married once, but held other relationships while she went away for school in New York City (Baechler 280). She had a divorce a little while after that, leading her into a lonely and sad life that she shared with her aging mother. Her adventures brought out her feelings and she expressed them through her pieces of writing. In her novel The Member of the Wedding, McCullers used bizarre and tortured characters who have disparate purposes and significant meanings. McCullers makes Frankie Addams the most unfortunate character of the book. Frankie is a twelve year old girl trapped within her own mind in
She is a short, broad-shouldered African-American older woman. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. Works Cited Baechler, Lea, Ed. The older girls also are a part of many clubs, but never ask Frankie to join. Frankie, knowing her incompleteness is terrified of everything that reminds her of such. The symbolism that McCullers used comes from the ancient literary tradition of the blind or one-eyed person who spoke the truth clearly because of that missing vision. It is hard for her at first as a little girl, but as she grows older she isolates herself in her dark kitchen. She often has wishes at night about her hair, wanting it longer or shinier (Magill, Masterpieces 307). Her loneliness comes at a young age when her mother dies. She usually plays cards or talks for hours with her maid Berenice and her cousin John. Frankie is essentially unchanged by the trauma of disappointment over her brother's wedding. At the end of the story, she appears to be over the worst of her childhood.
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