Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Roddy Doyle
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1968
- Setting: Barrytown, Northern Dublin
- Principal Characters: Paddy Clarke, Francis “Sinbad”, Ma and Da, Mr. Hennessey “Henno”, Kevin, Aidan, Liam, Charles Leavy
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Schools or school life, Violence, Working class, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Polio, Cities or towns, Fishes, Dual-career family
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
A very short story by Stephen Crane, “A Dark Brown Dog,” is set, like many other Crane works of the early 1890’s, in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side. The story’s plot is minimal. A dog, small and stray but decidedly, even desperately friendly, attaches itself to a young boy, who responds to the dog’s overtures alternately with affection and, because he is a child of the slums, aggression. Reluctantly, almost grudgingly, though perhaps also gratefully, the boy allows the dog to follow him home. Some time later the boy’s father arrives drunk, seizes the dog, and...
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