Abstract
The America of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts is a spiritual wasteland, the suffering of its people chronicled in the doleful letters received by "Miss Lonelyhearts," the newspaper advice columnist. Psychologically exhausted by the pleas of his readers, Miss Lonelyhearts imagines himself gazing at "the paraphernalia of suffering" through a pawnshop window, seeing among its accumulated objects the remnants of America's broken dreams.
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