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Which theme does Carson McCullers build around the existential issues the main characters face in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as revealed through these lines from the novel? Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

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It represents a mans struggle against isolation. That even in the most crowd places; one can feel a deep sense of loneliness.

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