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  • Cousin Lymon Willis And Marvin Macy
    642 words
    The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe Throughout the novel The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, there is an evident recurring theme. Ever-present in the story is a feeling of unrequited love, illustrated through looking at the parallels of the intertwined relationships between three separate individuals. Miss Amelia Evans, Cousin Lymon Willis, and Marvin Macy, are the players involved in this grotesque love triangle. The feelings they respectively have for each other are what drives the story, a...
  • Amelia's Love For Cousin Lymon
    754 words
    The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Love and Attraction The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers is a story of love illustrated through the romantic longings and attractions of the three eccentric characters; Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy. McCullers depicts love as a force, often strong enough to change people's attitudes and behaviors. Yet, the author seems to say, if the love is unrequited, individuals, having lost their motivation to change, will revert back to their true selves. T...
  • Marvin Macy And Miss Amelia
    660 words
    Cafe with Character Carson MacCullers wrote her novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, in third person. In this dramatic narrative, the narrator is an observer. In the novella, character serves to accent the narrators limited point of view. The motivations behind Miss Amelias, Cousin Lymons, and Marvin Macys actions are often a mystery to the narrator. Miss Amelia is the main character of the novella. She was a... dark, tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. (p. 4) Miss Amelia had a... stra...
  • Lymon And Frankie
    919 words
    Miss. Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Frankie reside in the world of fiction created by Carson McCullers. Carson McCullers was born Lulu Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Born in the south, her characters are southern in nature and manner. "Though she was a progenitress to much "southern writing", she had a manner all her own". (Bloom 17) Miss. Amelia and Frankie are dominating female characters possessing strong male features. Cousin Lymon is a strange character who possesses bird-like character tra...
  • Cousin Lymon And Marvin Macy
    722 words
    Carson McCullers's hort story, The Ballad Of A Sad Caf'e, is a classic illustration of how love can sometimes be one-sided and the pain that comes from this. In this story, the one-sidedness of love resulted in a love triangle being formed between Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy. In the story, Carson McCullers highlights an interesting but often overlooked definition of love. Her definition of love is stated as "Love is the a joint experience between two persons but the fact it is a j...

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