Cousin Lymon has proven himself to be a sociable person who enjoys entertaining the town's people with his tales. He is an attention seeker who lives the life to the fullest and enjoys being the center of activity at the cafe. He was the one who persuade Miss Amelia into transforming her store into a cafe just for his own pleasure of entertaining people. Miss Amelia allows the transformation to occur out of love for Lymon. Soon, the store transform into the cafe and it becomes a great sort of entertainment for the town's people. People became more polite and were amuse by Lymon's presence at the cafe. Lymon enjoyed setting up people into fights as the narrator says, "The hunchback was a great mischief maker. He enjoyed any kind of to-do,[...]he could set the people at
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Lymon "turns pale" (47) when he spots Marvin Macy which was odd because he did not know about the ten-day marriage between Miss Amelia and Marvin. The author suggests that Marvin and Lymon might have known each other from before "He and the man stared at each other, and it was not a look of two strangers meeting for the first time... peculiar stare they exchanged between them, like the look of two criminals who recognized each other" (46). Cousin Lymon starts to carefully stride around Marvin Macy, "keeping many paces away". In addition, he was fascinated by Marvin's adventurous life. Cousin Lymon behavior toward Marvin was immature and childish clearly unimpressive and unflattering to the town's people "He stood there wiggling his large pale ears with marvelous quickness and ease" (48). Furthermore, even when Lymon realizes that his accomplishments are getting him nowhere he still added new efforts to impress Marvin "He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale...swamphaunt". Even when Marvin hit him making him fall back he shows no shame and still attempts to impress him and to prove he is the
Lymon "turns pale" (47) when he spots Marvin Macy which was odd because he did not know about the ten-day marriage between Miss Amelia and Marvin. The author suggests that Marvin and Lymon might have known each other from before "He and the man stared at each other, and it was not a look of two strangers meeting for the first time... peculiar stare they exchanged between them, like the look of two criminals who recognized each other" (46). Cousin Lymon starts to carefully stride around Marvin Macy, "keeping many paces away". In addition, he was fascinated by Marvin's adventurous life. Cousin Lymon behavior toward Marvin was immature and childish clearly unimpressive and unflattering to the town's people "He stood there wiggling his large pale ears with marvelous quickness and ease" (48). Furthermore, even when Lymon realizes that his accomplishments are getting him nowhere he still added new efforts to impress Marvin "He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale...swamphaunt". Even when Marvin hit him making him fall back he shows no shame and still attempts to impress him and to prove he is the