Ballad of sad cafe
... In McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café, both Lymon and Amelia are two characters that could be classified as “grotesque”, but Amelia, out of the two, is the one to be considered more grotesque by her way of doing things. ... In The Ballad of the Sad Café, McCullers uses the fact that Amelia is a strong nosed person who doesn’t allow anyone close to her and plays on that trait of hers, and brings in Lymon to attempt to leech on to her.