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TheDrunkardByFrankO'Connorfcontent•Authorintroduction•Majorworks•Plotsummary•Theme•ThinkaminuteAuthorintroductionAuthorintroduction•FrankO‘Connor(1903~1966)•Irishplaywright,novelistandshort-storywriterof150works,whoasacriticandasatranslatorofGaelicworksfromthe9thtothe20thcentury,servedasaninterpreterofIrishandliteraturetotheEnglish-speakingworld.Hisearlylife•RaisedanonlychildinCork.Hisearlylifewasmarkedbyhisfather’salcoholism,debtandill-treatmentofhismother.O’Connor’schildhoodwasshapedinpartbyhismother,whosuppliedmuchofthefamily’sincomebecausehisfatherwasunabletokeepsteadyemploymentduetohisdrunkenness.Hewasintheballoonmakingindustry.Literarycareer•HehastakenvariouspositionsincludingIrishteacher,theatredirector,andlibrarian.In1935O’ConnorbecameamemberoftheBoardofDirectoroftheAbbeyTheatreSociety.In1937,hebecamemanagingdirectoroftheAbbey.In1950,heacceptedinvitationstoteachintheU.S,wheremanyofhisshortstorieshadbeenpublishedinTheNewYorkerandwongreatacclaim.Death•FrankO’ConnorhadastrokewhileteachingatStanfordUniversityin1961,andlaterdiedfromaheartattackinDublin,Irelandon10thMarch1966.contentMajorworks•GuestsoftheNation(1931,shortstories)BonesofContention(1936,shortstories)TheBigFellow(1937,biography,ofMichaelCollins)DutchInterior(1940,novel)CrabAppleJelly(1944,shortstories)Traveler'sSamples(1956,shortstories)AnOnlyChild(1961,memoir)MyOedipusComplex(1963,shortstories)CollectedStories(1981,shortstories)contentPlotsummary•Itisthestoryofayoungboyandhisalcoholicfather.Thefatherhasatendencytodrinkagainwhenthecircumstancesareright,andthisusuallyhasseriousconsequencesfortheyoungboy‘sfamily---hismotherhadtogoandpawnthekitchenclock.•Thestorybeginswiththeretellingofthedeathofoneofthefather'speers.Thoughthefatherisnotclosewiththeman,thereisacertainsocialresponsibilitythatheshouldattend,sohegoestothefuneral.Afterthefuneral,thepeoplegotothelocalpub.Thesonwithhisfathertotakehimhomeisinvian,thereisnothingforhimtodobutwatchtheinevitabledestructionofhisfatherandfamily.Whenthefathergetshisbeer,hechatwithothers,leavingtheglassasidetotempttheboy.Theyouth‘scuriositydriveshimtostealsomedrinksofthemysteriousbrew.Whenthefatherturnsarounditistoolate.Theyoungboyhasdownedtheentirebeerandisthoroughlydrunk.contentTheme•Thehypocrisyofhumannature：Whenthesonisdunked---thefatherisrepulsedbywhatheobserves.Heisshowntobehypocritical,becausethesesameattitudesandactionsinhimselfareacceptable,whileinsomeoneelsetheyareshameful.•Ithinkthedrunkardisboththefatherandtheson.Thereaderscanbeboththeson,whoreflectsothers'sins,andthefather,whoisrepulsedbyhisownsinsinothers.Nomatterinwhichway,bothofthecharactersaresimilarinthefactthattheyeachmirrortheother.Thefather'shypocrisyismoreshamefultothereader.•contentThinkaminuteIsfather’sshametrulydifferentfromthechild's?