1. Love In "The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe"
... 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 comes to realize the lessons embedded in McCullers' distorted characters ... . The distortion of the characters and the narrator that McCullers uses in her story elucidate their emotional defects, especially their misinterpretation of love. All th...
- Word Count: 426
- Approx Pages: 2
- Grade Level: Graduate