1. Love In "The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe"
... between the three freakish main characters: the androgynous Miss Amelia, the manipulative hunchback Cousin Lymon, and the evil criminal Marvin Macy. McCullers' usage of social outcasts and her emphasis on their physical handicaps underscores their emotional deficiencies as the characters fall into a love triangle and each character shows their love for their respective beloved in awkward, childlike ways. McCullers also ... topics. The distortion of the characters and the narrator that McCullers uses in her story elucidate their emotional defects, especially their misinterpretation of lo...
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- Grade Level: Graduate