The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe As A Grotesque Tragic Tale

John Singer always put his hand on his friend’s arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. Because McCullers was the prisoner of the grotesque, she chooses for her fictional world people with the misfits, the ugly and the abnormal. When Singer and Antonopoulos are together Singer would eagerly talk gesticulating with his hands about all that is moving in his mind and Antonopoulos would recline on bed, placid and indolent. He seldom moves his hands to speak and when he does it is to say, that he wanted to eat or to sleep or to drink. At the bus station Singer watches his friend from the window and his hands begin hectically to talk to his friend for the last time but Antonopoulos is so busy checking over the items in his …show more content…
For McCullers’ grotesque is the most suitable medium because through this, she draws an alienated and tragic world of characters who demonstrate physical as well as psychological grotesqueness. Carson McCullers continues her art of grotesque in her other novels too. The Ballad of the Sad Café is one of the most important grotesque characters McCullers created and it is generally agreed that Amelia’s grotesque tragic tale is an indirect presentation of the novelist’s own personal life. In this autobiographical novel, she analysis the strange Amazonian female’s relationship with the two men and traces the cause of her loneliness. Physical incapacity is a sharp feature of the personalities of Miss Amelia and Cousin Lymon. Amelia appears man like in her physique as well as …show more content…
This uncommon little man claims to be related to Amelia: the man was a hunchbacked. He was scarcely more than four feet tall and he wore a ragged rusty coat that reached only to his knees. His crooked little legs seemed too him to carry the weight of his great warped chest and the hump that sat on his shoulders. He had a very large head with deep set blue eyes and a sharp little mouth. His face was both soft and sassy at the moment his pale skin was yellowed by dust and there were lavender shadows beneath his eyes. He carried a lopsided old suitcase which was tied with a rope. His hands are like dirty sparrow claws. No one had any idea about the age of hunchback not even Miss.