Angela's Ashes | The Portrayal of McCourt's Family
In the following essay, the author discusses the portrayal of McCourt's family in Angela's Ashes.
On the opening page of his riveting memoir, Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt describes his ‘‘miserable Irish Catholic childhood'':
the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
The perils of Frankie's childhood read like a laundry list of stereotypical suffering; however, as Michiko Kakutani so correctly writes in her review for the New York Times, ''There is...
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