Cousin Lymon

In the novella “The Ballad of a Sad Café” there are three main characters that are caught in a love triangle, one of them being the very interesting Cousin Lymon. Lymon is most definitely one of the strangest characters and has such a presence in the story. As you read this novella you will get to know Lymon as a melodramatic, grotesque human being, who must always be the center of attention.
Lymon was first seen on page six when he hobbled into Cheehaw claiming to be Miss Amelia’s cousin “The man was a stranger, and it is rare that a stranger enters the town on foot at that hour”. Strange is what they should have called him, for there was most definitely nothing ordinary about this man “He was scarcely more than four feet tall and he wore a ragged, dusty coat that reached only to his knees. His crooked little legs seemed to thin to carry the weight of his great warped chest and the hump that sat in his shoulders.”(6-7). It was then, at that moment that Cousin Lymon stole Miss Amelia’s Heart “Then Miss Amelia did a rare thing; she
Lymon had a very endearing presence in the novella “It was as though he had lived in the town for years, was a well-known character, and had been sitting and talking there on that guano sack for countless evenings.” (20). He had become a part of the town, in a way that if he bluntly said something odd or obnoxious it was accepted not questioned. Lymon was always in the spotlight and he was kind of hard to ignore “The hunchback was still a novelty and his presence amused everyone.” (22). He would strut around the café like he owned the place, being a busy-body and instigating drama. Even though Lymon was able win over Miss Amelia and the town with his antics, he was soon to encounter someone who even he could not