美国南方女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯的处女作《心是孤独的猎手》不仅展现了美国南方人们的精神隔绝和信仰缺失,而且揭露了南方充满矛盾的社会现实。在象征主义的视角下,从小说的主题、结构、情节、意象四个方面剖析人们的信仰缺失。 The Southern American woman writer Carson McCullers’ s novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter not only shows the spiritual isolation and lack of faith of the people in the southern United States, but also exposes the contradictory social reality in the south. From the perspective of symbolism, we analyze people’s lack of belief from the four aspects of the theme, structure, plot and image of the novel.