Ballad Of The Sade Cafe - Tale Of Two Towns
Our Café, In the Middle of the Street
Carson McCullers wrote The Ballad of the Sad Café in a distinctive approach, in which she contrasts a petite village during its abandonment phase and when it prospered most. The selection was written in which the beginning and end takes the role of describing the town when it was desolate. The majority of the novel plays as a flashback to when the café developed the small village into a working town. Miss Amelia is who runs this café, which runs the town, in which when Miss Amelia's despair quickly gained entrance to society, the café closed down, as did the town.
The present town is described as "dreary," as it is established in the first sentence and at the end. However, after the institute of the café, instantly the village began to flourish, becoming more active and alive. This is unlike the previous "town" the hopeless people grew to hate. The first town, being abandoned-like and featuring a small populous area represents abandonment, in which nobody is truly connected to one another. The active town represents a feeling of devotion, prosperity, and success, as the town grows together with one another and all being connected through the café.
Cousin Lymon is the key factor that affects how the café and town runs. Before, Miss Amelia ran a small general supply store and doctor's office, for which the town's people became accustomed to. Nothing really happened until Cousin Lymon arrived as "kin" to Miss Amelia. The guideline, according to Miss Amelia, in drinking alcohol was it must be done outside the store. To show and open up herself to Lymon, her love and devotion to Lymon's recklessness quickly changed this. She allowed Lymon to drink the alcohol in her store, as well as the rest of the townsfolk. Because of Lymon wanting the café to officially open, the deserted town became an establishment all had visited and were connected through. Not only did she prim up the store...
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