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Traci Y Davis McCullers tells us twice in the novel: "'A peacock of a sort of ghastly green. With one immense golden eye. And in it these reflections of something t…moreMcCullers tells us twice in the novel: "'A peacock of a sort of ghastly green. With one immense golden eye. And in it these reflections of something tiny and ---'" "'Groteseque,' she finished for him. "

Every character in the novel is warped by some obsession, passion, self-denial, wantonness, self-indulgence, etc., etc., to the point that they are unable to function in normal human society. This is the definition of the "grotesque" in literature, especially in the "Southern Grotesque" school of writing (Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, Capote, etc.). I think McCullers was trying to take the genre as far as it could go in order to examine how the concept works in all of us.(less)

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Why did Anacleto run out of the room dropping the glass?

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