McCullers's Cousin Lymon: Quasimodo Southern Style

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Notes

¹See Virginia Spencer Carr, Understanding Carson McCullers: “Cousin Lymon owes his creation, in part, to an actual hunchback whom McCullers saw in a Sand Street bar that she frequented in Brooklyn Heights when she lived at 7 Middagh Street, near the old Brooklyn Naval Yard” (55).

²According to information on “The Fairy Mythology: Scandinavia: Dwarfs or Trolls,” at sacred-texts.com, dwarfs (or trolls) “have some very extraordinary and useful properties … they can … perform numerous feats beyond the power of man.”

³René Girard's idea of triangular desire was first suggested in his 1961 text Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (translated into English in 1965), and the theory was further refined in later publications from the 1970s.