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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1436 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Drunkard
Criticism of
“The Drunkard”
In “The Drunkard,” Frank O’Connor portrays Mick Delaney as a classic Irish drunk, by showing his selfishness, his ego, and his depression. He has all three of these, in great quantity, which makes him a very unstable person. It does not just affect him; it also affects every one around him (especially his family).
The story takes place in Ireland on a street called Blarney Lane. It wasn’t necessarily …showed first 75 words of 1436 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1436 total…drinking becomes very depressed. I myself know all about the character traits of an alcoholic, because I am recovering from the disease. Those are the main flaws of a drunk and O’Connor depicts them beautifully.
Work Cited Page
O’Connor, Frank. “The Drunkard” Perrine’s Story and Structure. Ed. Michel Rosenburge. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998
Weber, Owene. Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives. Ed. Robert Evens. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1998
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