Legal Aid (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank O'Connor
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1940's
- Setting: A provincial town in County Cork, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Delia Carty, Tom Flynn, Ned Flynn, Father Corcoran, Jackie Canty, Michael Ivers, Peter Humphreys, Dan “Roarer” Cooper
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Class conflict, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Errors
- Locales: Cork, Ireland
The Story
Delia Carty, until the age of nineteen, had always been a “respectable” girl, but working as a maid for the O’Gradys proved to be her ruin, mainly because of the bad example they set for her. Within six months she was smoking and within a year she acquired a young lover named Tom Flynn, the son of farmer Ned Flynn. The narrator says that Tom is no great catch, being a big, uncouth galoot who loves to drink and chase the girls. After a two-year love affair, Delia becomes pregnant.
This is very bad news for Tom, who knows that his father “would first beat...
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