There is a beautiful poem by the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky I really love. I think it summarises this incredible book perfectly! It goes like this:
Once upon a time
there was a lonely wolf
lonelier than the angels.

He happened to come to a village.
He fell in love with the first house he saw.

Already he loved its walls
the caresses of its bricklayers.
But the window stopped him.

In the room sat people.
Apart from God nobody ever
found them so beautiful
as this child-like beast.

So at night he went into the house.
He stopped in the middle of the room
and never moved from there any more.

He stood all through the night, with wide eyes
and on into the morning when he was beaten to death.

-Translated by Janos Csokits and Ted Hughes

Carson McCullers won her place in my heart with only two novellas and a few short stories. She is an author of incredible talent and I am both sad I have not read her books earlier, and happy I have started reading them now, when I believe I've reached the right level of appreciation for this type of writing and literature. Her writing is visual, cinematographic either, with the use of a lot of colors and descriptions of gestures and personal traits. Her characters are very human and from what I have read so far - quite often possess some sort of emotional or physical impairement. Loneliness and destruction are no strangers to her writing, and Reflections in a Golden Eye is no exception.
I cannot wait to read more from McCullers!