The Loneliest PeopleThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a very deep philosophical story about lonely people. Everyone in this book is damn lonely and searching for who they are. John Singer is a deaf man who rents a room from the Kelly family and makes a living as a silver engraver. He is a confidant and comfort to Jake Blount and Dr. Copeland. John Singer's silent suffering and desolate solitude are perhaps the most touching of all. John Singer devotes himself generously to his compulsive deaf best friend, Spiros Antonapoulos. Jake Blount is a traveling alcoholic who vacillates between violent tirades and drunken stupors and arrives in town with a disorganized plan to start a socialist uprising among the working class. He finds work as a mechanic at the traveling carnival and often talks about social injustices and Jake Blount is lonely just like John Singer. Dr. Copeland practiced medicine for twenty-five years; he feels that his work has frustrated his ambition to change problems between blacks and whites. Furthermore, he had tuberculosis and his son Willie is in prison for abuse. His other daughter Portia, who was his daughter, worked for the Kelly family and Dr. Copeland is as lonely as Singer and Jake. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter packs a huge emotional punch to the heart and powerful feelings. John Singer was one of the people in the book that everyone was drawn to because he's a good listener. John Singer is the focus of this story and it revolves around John Singer. John Singer will help you understand the other people in the book because they all come to talk to him about everything that has happened in their lives. But for all the talk about how John Singer is a good listener and... at the center of the paper... a warmth. There are heavy hangovers to work off, affairs, bizarre mishaps, deaths both accidental and intentional, marital squabbles and racial tensions. We meet the unhappy, the war-torn, the evangelicals and the righteous. “Each character, in their own way, seeks answers about life from the one man in town who can't articulate them. Talking to John Singer is like talking to your ghost or your God. Behind his words you can hear McCullers experiencing the kaleidoscopic movements of this city. You can feel her falling in love with her eclectic band of misfits, modeled after people she knew as surely as she knew her own blood. For all their lonely hearts, you can't help but fall in love with them too. "(Oprah Winfrey) Works Cited1) McCullers, c. 2000. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghon.Miffin2) www.oprah.com3) www.washingtonpost.com