How would you interpret ‘business office’ here? How would you interpret ‘business office’ here? What kind of a place is it? Thanks! It’s from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by McCullers the context: The town was a fairly large one. On the main street there were several blocks of two- and three-story shops and business offices. But the largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were very poor. Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness.