Since Singer is mute: his inability to communicate along with his kindness and calm personality sets him at his own disadvantages for anyone could make their own worshipful and mistaken assumptions about him. The four desperate characters that constantly visited him, Singer would just “nodded or smiled to show his guests that he understood” (92). Since Singer couldn’t speak up to agree or deny anything, people in the society began to give him various identity based on who they are and what they believe or desire rather than who Singer himself is. “The Jews said he was a Jew. The merchants along the main street claimed that he received a large legacy and was a very rich man. ….” (200) and so on. Now it wasn’t just the four characters that desperately wanted to be understood by someone and made Singer into god but the whole society was making Singer into something they desperately wanted. Society creates …show more content…
Hope. In bible itself says that “Hope is God” in Psalm 42:5. Just as McCullers’s four desperate characters only confide in Singer with everything as one might do in God. People seek God in hope that he might understand him or her and give what they want. They, who pray at bed time or confess at church or temple to God, are the words they only share with God and no one else. Just like people confessing to God, Mick, Jake, and Doctor Copeland talk about their problems, belief and dreams with Singer and only Singer. His room being small and neat and he being formal but approachable and nonjudgmental also tend to give him God like qualities in these characters eyes. After talking to Singer they all would “lost the urge to be riotous and felt calm again” (69). And they all leave seemingly refreshed. The fact that characters see Singer as a God and that talking him is like confessing at church is shown in even more depth in the novel when McCullers brings all the character together for the first time in Singer’s