A Question for Those of You Who Have Read "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

[Irving Washington]

Did McCullers mean to portray Singer as the wise man that everyone thought of him as? I took him to be a much less exaggerated version on Chance the Gardener from "Being There."

[Applejack]

Did McCullers mean to portray Singer as the wise man that everyone thought of him as? I took him to be a much less exaggerated version on Chance the Gardener from "Being There."
I want to chime in on what promises to be a red hot thread. Yes, I think he meant to portray him as wise: the one who could not speak nor hear, just alone with his sight.

I haven't read "being there."

[concerned]

Did McCullers mean to portray Singer as the wise man that everyone thought of him as? I took him to be a much less exaggerated version on Chance the Gardener from "Being There."

Seriously IW? Has anybody read this book since sophmore year of high school? Has anybody ever read it for any other reason?

[Applejack]

Seriously IW? Has anybody read this book since sophmore year of high school? Has anybody ever read it for any other reason?
Yes.

[LA Ute]

Seriously IW? Has anybody read this book since sophmore year of high school? Has anybody ever read it for any other reason?

This smacks of being a low blow....

[concerned]

This smacks of being a low blow....

IW can take it.

[Irving Washington]

Seriously IW? Has anybody read this book since sophmore year of high school? Has anybody ever read it for any other reason?
I read it because it was in the top ten of one list of best novels of the 20th century. I was underwhelmed. Now, back to the question...

[concerned]

I read it because it was in the top ten of one list of best novels of the 20th century. I was underwhelmed. Now, back to the question...

that's how I got sucked into reading Jonathan Franzen. Just shows you cant trust top 10 lists.