美国女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯擅长描写南方小镇中的怪异人事,以此为视点关照人类生存共通的肉身与情感的缺陷。本文通过对其最后一部小说《没有指针的钟》在历史变革、种族歧视及家庭隔阂叙述中的分析,洞察人类无法沟通的孤独和隐藏的自我缺失。 The American woman writer Carson McCullers is good at describing the weird affairs in the southern town, taking as a point of view to take care of the common physical and emotional defects of human existence. Through the analysis of historical novels, racial discrimination and family estrangement, the last of his novels, The Clockless, this essay provides an insight into the loneliness and hidden self-absence human beings can not communicate.