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My Oedipus Complex

When ever you read a story of any kind you will usually know what any certain character is going through. Either by personal experience in that situation or just imagining what they are dealing with. In the short story "" by Frank O’Connor I can imagine how all the characters were feeling throughout the story. In my perspective all the characters had similar emotions.
Let me begin with Larry. He is five years old and his father is off in the war, thus alone at home with the undivided attention of his mother. Now as a little kid Larry is going through a lot of difficult times. He looks at his father like Santa Claus, only there every once and a while. "…instead of uniform, he put ...

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they have a family and people who love them has just got to be heart breaking.
Larry’s mother in this story is just thrown in the middle. Although I don’t believe that she is aware of this, to her her son is just not respecting his father. For example, "’Don’t-wake-Daddy!’ she hissed angrily". Because Larry’s mother didn’t really know that her husband and son were fighting over her, when she had a second child she just turned and took care of it.
You asked us which one of the characters we felt sorry for the most. I would probably have to say the father. He has to go to war, yes he does make it home safely. When he gets home all he seems to want is to spend some time with his wife, and he pushes his son out of the way. Later when his wife has another child and is pushed away himself, it is then that he realizes how he treated his own ...

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Added: 4/8/2004 12:03:57 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 399
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