Alina LaRoche
American Lit. II
Ms. Villanova
5/18/15
1. William Sharp’s poem is sad and is about the loss of a loved one. The title “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” is significant because all five of the main characters are looking for someone they can pour their heart to. Four of the five main characters use Singer as someone to vent to however, after Singer loses Antonapoulos, he has no one to confide to anymore. His heart is searching, or hunting, for someone to let his real self show.
2. In my opinion, loneliness is not being able to control not having friends or something indirectly causing you to be lonely usually unintentionally, however isolation is more isolating yourself from the community or staying to yourself and blocking everyone out intentionally. Some of the characters try to alleviate their feelings of loneliness and isolation by confiding in their feelings to Singer.
3. I agree with the narrator that all four of the main characters are both ordinary and heroic. They are all ordinary because each one of them lives a normal life that is similar to most people, however they are heroic because each
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John Singer’s devotion to Antonapoulos is fueled by his love and the mutual circumstances that they both share. After Antonapoulos is sent to the asylum, McCullers writes “the weeks that followed did not seem real at all. All day Singer worked over his bench in the back of the jewelry store, and then at night he returned to the house alone”. It is during this period that Singer shares his past, like how he learned how to speak and how to sign, however after meeting Antonapoulos, he chose to “never speak with his mouth again, because with his friend there was no need for this”. Singer is finally allowing himself to become vulnerable to the hearing world after his friend is sent to the asylum. He feels alone after one of his only friends leave him and scared about the fact that he has to face the real world that he was so isolated from for almost ten