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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe Summary

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“"The Ballad of the Sad Café." is an ahaunting story of a human triangle that comes full circle in an astounding fight, the novella acquaints readers with Miss Amelia, an imposing southern lady whose bistro fills in as the town's get-together place. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by is an account of affection represented through the sentimental longings and attractions of the three whimsical characters; Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy. McCullers portrays love as a compel, regularly sufficiently solid to change individuals' states of mind and practices. The writer appears to state, if the affection is solitary, people, having lost their inspiration to change, will return to their actual selves. The charm of the diverse characters, which is never uncovered by the writer, appears to show that sentiments of affection and fascination are not really sensible or justifiable to others. Miss Amelia is one of the outstanding character in the story as most of the scenes in the story revolves around her. Miss Amelia is an independent, candid and especially a recluse. She stands six foot one-inch-tall and has a …show more content…

For her, such characters best embodied the loneliness and isolation that she regarded as the basic condition of human existence. Other themes—all of which bear on the novella's central concern with loneliness—include the failure of communication, the anguish of unrequited love, the psychological phenomenon that causes human beings who are worshiped to despise the worshiper, and the redemptive and transformative effects that even transitory and ultimately doomed love can have on an individual and his or her community. Critics note that McCullers was particularly interested in the paradox of shared isolation, a term that describes the relationships among the three main characters and between the three and their community as

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