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Carson McCullers had a very rough journey to follow through life. She lived in a time of many challenges and hardships, which greatly influenced her writing. She also lived through an era of poverty and depression, racism and discrimination, as well as wars and fighting. Through her life, Carson McCullers experienced loneliness, sexual and emotional confusion, and pain that lead her to writing pieces of America's greatest works that will be read for generations to come. Even as all the luck and odds were stacked against her, Carson managed to struggle through and become one of America’s most influential and greatest authors.
Lula Carson Smith was born on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, Georgia. She was the first child of her parents Lamar and Marguerite Waters Smith. Lula Carson became interested in music and playing the piano at a young age, and she started to take lessons at age ten. (Danzinger) She decided that she would become a concert pianist and she dedicated her youth to achieving that dream. When Carson was a senior in high school, she suffered from rheumatic fever, which is thought to have contributed to her crippling strokes in life. As she graduated, her goals changed, and she made a life altering decision to become a writer instead of a pianist. She started out writing short plays, which starred her brother and sister. (Broughton) Her first of many was called “The Faucet”. Carson then gradually moved into writing stories, but she did not have any success with her first story called “Sucker”. She decided that if she was going to make it as an author, she would have to move somewhere bigger and more opportunistic. She had to raise the money on her own because the Great Depression had hit their family hard. Her father lost his job and they became extremely poor. Her parents could not afford to pay for her schooling, let alone a trip to New York to begin her career. At age 17, Carson had saved enough money to move from her home town in...