【正文】 d of piano piece or other music going on in the back of her mind. No matter what she was doing or thinking it was nearly always there.” (McCullers 31) In the outside room, Mick is cut out from the rest of her family. Her mother is busy catering for the boarders every day and her father is unfulfilled in his career ambitions. Born into a goodsized family living on rents from the boarders, Mick is deprived of realizing her musical dreams from the start. Although she has 5 siblings, none of them really listens to her. Her two elder sisters despise her and she also split up with her brother Bill, who was originally patible with her. She thinks her sisters are superficial, though she cannot live a cozy life like her brother either. Thus, Mick lacks a role model for her to learn from during the confusing period. As a result, she locks herself up in the inside room whenever possible, because nowhere else could she have some place to herself in the crowed and noisy house. In her inside room, there is only her music and Mr. Singer, only who she thinks can understand her thoughts and share the music with her. She wants to be his confidant, but Singer kills himself. After this blow, Mick is an absolute loner again, but being alone does not eliminate her ability to love, nor her quest for it, even in the strangest of places. She tends her two little brothers, especially Bubber. She thinks that Bubber is the most adorable and smart child in the world. She withholds the dream of having a secondhand piano because the family plans to buy Bubber a bicycle for his birthday. From the above we know that Mick is a kindhearted teenage girl, but she cannot find a proper place for herself in the town. Clumsily, she throws a party in order to make some friends. She is always the misfit, both at home and in the society as a whole. I am most moved when in the novel she hides herself inside the bushes in a rich family’s garden and has her first encounter with Mozart’s piano piece, played on the radio. That is a magical moment in Mick’s life. She loses herself in the flowing music, infatuated and enchanted, forgetting all about the troubles facing her family and herself. But the deciding moment es for her to choose between her ambition and real life. In the end, she begins working at the dime store in order to save her family out of the financial crisis. She has then painfully entered the outside room, with the inside tightly shut for the moment. Growing upclinging to dream despite destituteDelicate and ambitious, Mick is always dreaming to bee a world famous musician some day. She fought, because the music talent is stirring inside her. Maybe she still keeps things to herself, maybe she still has no good private place, but she is now grown up in mind. When she finally decides to take up the parttime job at Woolworth’s department store, she has sacrificed her dream of being a concert pianist. At this moment, the 12yearold girl on the roof has grown into a female adolescent aware of her identity and responsibilities. She sacrifices her music dream as an expedient rather than giving up. She is not used to wearing stockings and dresses, but anyway she is trying her best to adapt to her female identity. She is still our Mick, still that stubborn girl pursing her dreamfirstly for music and now for helping her family to go through financial crisis. With her tender shoulders, she upholds a little wish to continue her dream after going through all this. “And maybe one of these days she might be able to set aside a little for a secondhand piano” (McCullers, 301). Deep down, Mick is still the one who worships Mozart and Edison, who makes unorthodox figures as her idols. She is the stubborn girl who wants to make her own violin out of soma scraps she collects. She is still the obstinate girl who used to stay after school every day to play the piano in the gym despite getting constantly hit on the head by basketballs and who spares her lunch money to learn the piano from another girl. By intuition, she perhaps senses that poverty is the reason why she can’t live in the same world as her brother Bill, Mr. Singer and Harry. They can do what they like, they can go anywhere as they wish and even escape for a while just like Harry. But with her, things are different. Limited teaching and living resources mean Mick has to go through the painful adolescence on her own and by her own willpower.She feels cheated, but not knowing cheated by whom. But we know she is cheated by the society. Unlike any contemporaries of her time, she is so outstanding and eccentric. Her interests, hobbies and idols are never accepted or supported by the family. But she adheres to it against the pressure from the patriarchic system. And she is a smart girl who possessed music talent and who draws to express her feelings, her fears and her dreams. So who knows what will bee of her in the future? After steering her family out of the money crisis, Mick will probably escape to some musical center to pursue her unfinished dream, just like her creator Carson McCullers travelling alone to New York to chase her literary dream. She is defeated, but not destroyed. Like what she says at the end of the novel: “All right! .! Some good.” (McCullers 302) Her temporary promise is the strongest accusation of the strangling southern society. But we should also admire the persistence and perseverance radiating from this young girl. The Member of the WeddingFrankie In this crazy summer when Frankie is 12 years old, she says, “The world is certainly a sudden place.”(McCullers 159) Sudden is how she feels in the sad and ugly old kitchen this summer. Being locked in the kitchen, square and gray and quiet, she feels afraid and lonely.The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to plete. She had what she called a divine spark and decided to create a girl who is in love with her brother and the bride. It