@article{oai:twcu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00024265,
 author = {江口, 裕子},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {英米文学評論},
 month = {},
 note = {No other civilized, modern people seem to me to be so much confronted with the reality of human isolation, and to suffer so much from their emotional void as presentday Americans. One might say that Mrs. McCullers' obsessive preoccupation with individual loneliness is rooted in this general American experience. One of the factors which has caused human isolation in America seems to lie in the highly mechanical and materialistic civilization. People have become more and more aware that they themselves are acting as a minor part of a machine process, and as something other than personalities. They suffer from a sense of loss of essential communication between man and man because of the impersonalization of human relations. In a mass society like the American, people's way of life has become increasingly standardized, and under the wide influence of mass media, even their thought, feeling and taste tend to be standardized. Thus, mass culture deprives a man of the means of freely choosing what he really likes, and expressing what he really is, and diminishes the power of distinguishing himself among others by personal colorings. In short, what mass society requires of him is to live, dress, act and think like everyone else. These general tendencies of dehumanization and impersonalization are certain to have generated in modern men a new loneliness and emotional void unknown to people who lived before the machine age. Individualism might be another factor that has caused American loneliness. While it has emancipated an individual from the bonds of hierarchical society, it has also served to cut him off from any permanent human tie. In a nonhierarchical society like the American, man feels himself unknown and unprotected, unless he holds membership in clubs, societies, or some other voluntary associations. There he can form more personal relationships with others than in his half-mechanized job life, by working, talking and eating with others, and there he can make his way as a person, not as a part of a mechanical, organization. It may be a way for the American to escape from his individual loneliness. Mrs. McCullers, with her keen perception, looks through the frustrated and distorted inner lives of people under the dehumanizing influence of modern civilization, and reveals their inner difficulty through symbols of the physically deformed and the hurt. It seems to me that lonely people in Mrs. McCullers' world, whose search for the means of self-expression and communication invariably ends in failure, are the symbolic extensions of the dilemma of creative personality in this standardized mass society.},
 pages = {129--146},
 title = {Carson McCullers : アメリカの孤独},
 volume = {7},
 year = {1959}
}