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1、The Drunkard,By Frank O Connorf,content,Author introductionMajor worksPlot summaryThemeThink a minute,Author introduction,Author introduction,Frank O Connor(19031966)Irish playwright,novelist and short-story writer of 150 works,who as a critic and as a translator of Gaelic works from the 9th to the
2、20th century,served as an interpreter of Irish and literature to the English-speaking world.,His early life,Raised an only child in Cork.His early life was marked by his fathers alcoholism,debt and ill-treatment of his mother.OConnors childhood was shaped in part by his mother,who supplied much of t
3、he familys income because his father was unable to keep steady employment due to his drunkenness.He was in the balloon making industry.,Literary career,He has taken various positions including Irish teacher,theatre director,and librarian.In 1935 OConnor became a member of the Board of Director of th
4、e Abbey Theatre Society.In 1937,he became managing director of the Abbey.In 1950,he accepted invitations to teach in the U.S,where many of his short stories had been published in The New Yorker and won great acclaim.,Death,Frank OConnor had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961,and
5、later died from a heart attack in Dublin,Ireland on 10th March 1966.content,Major works,Guests of the Nation(1931,short stories)Bones of Contention(1936,short stories)The Big Fellow(1937,biography,of Michael Collins)Dutch Interior(1940,novel)Crab Apple Jelly(1944,short stories)Travelers Samples(1956
6、,short stories)An Only Child(1961,memoir)My Oedipus Complex(1963,short stories)Collected Stories(1981,short stories)content,Plot summary,It is the story of a young boy and his alcoholic father.The father has a tendency to drink again when the circumstances are right,and this usually has serious cons
7、equences for the young boys family-his mother had to go and pawn the kitchen clock.The story begins with the retelling of the death of one of the fathers peers.Though the father is not close with the man,there is a certain social responsibility that he should attend,so he goes to the funeral.After t
8、he funeral,the people go to the local pub.The son with his father to take him home is in vian,there is nothing for him to do but watch the inevitable destruction of his father and family.,When the father gets his beer,he chat with others,leaving the glass aside to tempt the boy.The youths curiosity
9、drives him to steal some drinks of the mysterious brew.When the father turns around it is too late.The young boy has downed the entire beer and is thoroughly drunk.content,Theme,The hypocrisy of human nature：When the son is dunked-the father is repulsed by what he observes.He is shown to be hypocrit
10、ical,because these same attitudes and actions in himself are acceptable,while in someone else they are shameful.,I think the drunkard is both the father and the son.The readers can be both the son,who reflects others sins,and the father,who is repulsed by his own sins in others.No matter in which way,both of the characters are similar in the fact that they each mirror the other.The fathers hypocrisy is more shameful to the reader.content,Think a minute,Is fathers shame truly different from the childs?,
