![]() ![]() ![]() But McCullers isn't satisfied with that, and moves further down the road, sending us readers to listen to the singing of the chain gang, a real left-turn signified by its own subtitle. It fees right, and after all, we're back where we started: Southern town boredom. ![]() "There is absolutely nothing to do in the town" (Ballad.231). Miss Amelia boards up her building, and the narrator reiterates how "dreary" the town is without the café. The Twelve Mortal Men… and Even More Questions By laying the main story beside the coda, we can examine its thematic relationships and content to understand new things about the text. Here, the coda acts as a sort of separate conclusion, not of the story of Miss Amelia, but the larger story as told by the narrator. The ending of this story is a coda, entitled "The Twelve Mortal Men." "Coda" is a term that comes originally from music, which makes a lot of sense, given that the chain gang is singing. ![]()
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