Alienation in the Butcher Boy
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SummaryIn the Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe paints a picture of the perfectly dysfunctional family in The Bradys, who are shown in stark contrast to the perfectly normal family, the Nugents. From the start, Francie Brady’s family was the epitome of unstable. Francie’s father was an alcoholic who abused his wife, and she ended up going to a mental institution after a suicide attempt. The hero of the family, Uncle Alo, turned out to just be another phony whose stories were fabricated. Francie had no proper influences in his upbringing to tell him what was right and wrong, which left him to basically take care of himself. Francie wanted to be proud and honor his parents, but at the same time, the only reason he became alienated within the community was because of his family.
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- Not only did his parents neglect to nurture him, but the community itself refused to help him.
- There is an obvious theme of the differences in class in the Irish town, and the stronghold that these differences has within the town.
- Mrs. Nugent has no motivation for this tyrant, other than the fact that Francie stole Philip's comic books.
- Even worse than recognizing that the Mr. Nugent may be right about his family being pigs, is the fact that Francie would rather be part of the Nugent family.
- Francie realizes the fakeness of Mrs. Connolly and her friends that gossip all day long.
- The only part of the community that Francie was a part of, was his friendship with Joe Purcell.
- Francie is completely alienated from the community through the whole novel, and with the loss of his best friend Joe
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