What was Frank O’Connor’s intentions using irony throughout his short story, “The Drunkard?” What is an example of situational irony, dramatic irony, and verbal irony in The Drunkard?
Can one assume that Larry will soon have a drinking problem? Give examples to help support your claim.
Do you think that Mick's pride was harmed enough by his son Larry's drunken escapade to stay sober for the rest of his life? Or did Larry just delay the inevitable?
How much do parents effect their children? Is Larry doomed to become an alcoholic like his father? Or can he escape his parents' influence as the Fang children eventually did?
In “The Drunkard,” Larry’s father is represented as an on-again-off-again alcoholic who abstains from drinking for large periods of time to then go on a bender and then abstain again. Based on the evidence provided in the story, do you believe that Larry’s father’s alcoholism is brought on by external factors or is a product of his nature? Provide passages to further support your opinion.
In the story Larry and his mother both consider Larry to be a “brake” for his father’s drinking habits. At the end to the story, Larry’s mother comes in to his room and says “My brave little man! It was God did it you were there. You were his guardian angel.” Was Larry’s act of drinking his father’s pint purposeful like his mother seems to think or was it simply out of curiosity?
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