Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, the Macy brothers, and a cast of other sad characters live in a dreary town. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullerss first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy. Bowers VINE VOICE Love, Betrayal, and Revenge The Ballad of the Sad Caf broke my heart. "The Jockey" and "A Domestic Dilemma," however, do their job with ironic understatement that the jockey is just a jockey and alcoholism is merely a dilemma seems at the heart of these tragic narratives. The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: and Other Stories Top positive review Jayne P. In "Wunderkind" and "The Sojourner," we learn about the protagonists' hopes, while "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" and "A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud" point to the stories' most urgent messages. The story is certainly tragic, so "sad" isn't much of a stretch, but it's worth a wonder: is the title referring to the café in its heyday, with Miss Amelia at its helm, or in the present-day of the story, its building leaning dangerously to one side? Titles With a Little Less MysteryĮlsewhere, McCullers titles her stories with bullseye precision. McCullers' moral-driven Ballad uses tragic characters to talk about everything from gender to small-town values, and we watch as Miss Amelia loses everything near and dear.
While classically defined a ballad is a story set to music, by the nineteenth century authors like Oscar Wilde were using the form to explore biographical or societal ills. If you've ever heard a country song, you know what a ballad is: a man loses his woman, his job, his home, his truck, and his dog.
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