In the short story "The Ballad of the Sad Café,"" Carson McCullers utilizes distortion of literary reality to impart her lessons and thoughts concerning love to the reader. McCullers usage of distortion ultimately moves the story from a simplistic narrative about social misfits to an allegory dealing with very complex and abstract emotions. Once the reader ... , 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 l...

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... child to suffer, so what is the point of it? If at the end you will end up killing that child in a way that he will suffer since you wont love him and that is not nice. My reason number one is unwanted kid, there is plenty of reasons why you wouldn't want that kid like for example if the woman ... ...

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