Ballad of the sad cafe - summary

The story takes place in a small sorrowful town, where in fact usually nothing happens. One of main characters is Amelia Evans, a strong, almost masculine woman who ran a liquor store in the town. She was rich, nineteen years old girl considered handsome, although she was too big and too muscular, when surprisingly she decided to marry Marvin Macy, a town’s villain and evil man. But love, because Marvin was deeply in love with Amelia, changed him completely. He started to go to church, he learned good manners etc. and then he proposed himself to Miss Evans. Unfortunately Amelia did not love him, she was rather solitary person and the marriage lasted only ten days. Amelia Evans threw out her newly wedding husband first from the bedroom and later from her life. Marvin came back to his vicious, criminal life, which finally led him to jail. This is a story of their short lasting marriage but the real story starts when Lymon Willis one day arrives in town.

The main theme of this tale is a strange love and hate triangle between the three main characters: Mrs. Amelia Evans, Marvin Macy and Lymon Willis. Each of them loves a person who despises him / her and loves the other a

The first part of the story starts eleven years later, when Cousin Lymon arrives at town, what finally leads to the opening of the cafe.

The third part of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a fight scene, which is in fact a climax of the story and brings a conclusion. The fight took place on the second of February at seven o’clock, because it was a mystical number for Mrs. Amelia. Certain arrangements were made in the cafe to prepare it for the battle and although the time was not announced, soon everyone knew that this was the day. Sharp at seven Marvin and Amelia appeared and they simultaneously started to fight without any signal. Mrs. Amelia appeared to be stronger and finally defeated her husband, but at the same time Cousin Lymon entered into the fight and attacked her. Macy won the confrontation due to hunchback’s intervention. Everyone was shocked, nobody knew what to do so soon all the people left the cafe. Lymon Willis and Marvin Macy left the town the same night but beforehand they demolished the whole cafe and stole all the valuable things. Mrs. Amelia was left alone, humiliated and with her heart broken. She had waited for the return of the hunchback but it never happened and never anything was heard of the two of them. She led her solitary and sad life for about four years and then she asked to board up her house and remained in her closed rooms forever. The town lost great cafe and superb liquor and continued to be dreary without anything to do in the evenings. Love destroyed Mrs. Amelia’s life as well as the lives of Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon. None of them found happiness in his affection, only pain and solitude.

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