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The reading of McCullers’ work provides the reader with a dynamic intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic experience. Her gifts are manifold, intense and varied. For one thing, she is a masterful portrayer of character as she gives simultaneously the essence of each individual and his idiosyncratic particularities. Her range of as portrayer of character is very wide. Her black men and women never become mere stereotypes moving in the background. Her adolescent figures remain memorable as she treats them with humorous tolerance and sympathetic understanding in their awkwardness, frustration, bitterness, confusion and feelings of isolation. If her ordinary characters are memorable, the oddities of some others arrest, amuse or shock. Such personages function symbolically or metaphorically, as well as realistically. In the few years in which she created her first four novels, her first play and short stories, McCullers built a diverse world and f