Carson mccullers biography brevetti

Juliet Brett plays every Southern stereotype as the misfit Rosy, as if she were enacting literary images from Carson McCullers Brevetti.

Her father owned a jewellery store. As a child she was a talented pianist and was strongly encouraged by her mother to pursue the piano as a career. A childhood bout of rheumatic fever left her too weak to practise much. However, she lost most of the money her parents had given her to study and worked odd jobs to support herself, while attending creative writing classes.

While bedridden in , after an illness, she started writing The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , which was published in Her first short story was published in In she married Reeves McCullers, whom she had met when he was in the army at Fort Benning, near her hometown. Unfortunately, the partners shared a dependence on alcohol and were both bisexual.

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They divorced in , after both fell in love with the composer David Diamond , and remarried in Shortly after she left him for a second time, in , he killed himself. McCullers had considerable critical success with her novels, the first of which was published when she was only twenty-three. However, she suffered from health problems, including the first of her strokes in She continued to suffer from poor health and attempted suicide in She finally died of a stroke in Her wonderful portraits of such people, particularly young women like Mick in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Frankie in The Member of the Wedding , make her one of the foremost Southern writers of the twentieth century.