“Often some criminals would be hanging to the bars; it seemed to her that their eyes... had called to her as though to say: We know you” (149).
McCullers is showing again how F. Jasmine is disconnected from other people, but trapped at the same time. She feels connected to the prisoners in the same way that she feels connected to the people in the circus. She most likely feels this relation to these groups because she identifies with their isolation as well as their captivity. She feels that she cannot escape her town, her gender, or her age, just as the prisoners cannot get past the bars that hold them. She also relates to them on the basis of isolation. The prisoners are clearly cut off from the rest of society, but in F. Jasmine's mind, she may as well be just as disconnected. She feels that she has no one to relate to, no one to identify with.
Do you think there is any other way that F. Jasmine would identify with the prisoners? Why is she so intrigued by them?
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