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    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy"
    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy"
    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy"
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    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy"

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    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535837194
    A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy"

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      A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy" - Gale

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      The Haunted Boy

      Carson McCullers

      1955

      Introduction

      The Haunted Boy is a short story by twentieth-century southern American writer Carson McCullers. It was first published in the magazines Mademoiselle and Botteghe Oscure in 1955, and then reprinted in McCullers's Collected Short Stories in 1955. It appeared again in McCullers's Collected Stories in 1987. It is currently available in Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, published by Mariner Books in 1998, and in The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings, edited by Margarita G. Smith and published by Mariner Books in 2005. The story takes place on a single afternoon and is told through the eyes of Hugh, a boy of about fourteen. Hugh is deeply concerned when he returns from school to find that his mother, whose mental health has recently been unstable, is not at home. As the story unfolds, McCullers explores issues of love, anger, and guilt in the relationship between the boy and his mother. Although the story is not considered one of McCullers's major works, it is typical of her work in that it deals with the complexity of the feelings people have when in close relationships with others.

      Author Biography

      McCullers was born Lulu Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, to Marguerite and Lamar Smith. As a child, Carson wanted to be a concert pianist and practiced for six to eight hours every day, but she gave up that ambition before she was fifteen. In 1932, McCullers contracted pneumonia and rheumatic fever, although the latter was undiagnosed at the time. These illnesses were to prove the first of many for her.

      Her desire to become a writer led her, at the age of seventeen, to New York, where she supported herself with odd jobs and studied creative writing at Columbia University and New York University in the evenings. Sometimes forced by ill health to return to Georgia, on one such trip in 1935 she met Reeves McCullers, who was in the U.S. Army and was also a writer. They married in 1937, after Reeves left the army, and lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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