List three details that suggest the grotesque from this passage of "The Ballad of the Sad Café."The man was a stranger, and it is rare that a...

It looks like your passage is from the The
Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers. In the story, Miss Amelia, the
owner of a cafe, appears to take a liking to the hunchback, Cousin Lymon. She offers him
room and board, to the surprise of the townsfolk. Within two years of doing this, Miss
Amelia's cafe becomes successful and the talk of the town. Strangely, Miss Amelia rubs
pot liquor on the hunchback day and night in order to strengthen his body. However,
'nothing seemed to strengthen him; food only made his hump and his head grow larger
while the rest of him remained weakly and
deformed.'

Grotesque is defined as malformed,
repulsively distorted, or misshapen. So, from your passage, three details
which would suggest the grotesque would be:

1) the great
warped chest of the hunchback.

2) the hump on the
hunchback's shoulders.

3) the hunchback's thin and crooked
legs.