Relating Themes In O’Connor’s “First Confession”

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for a penny every Friday. Jackie couldn’t do this because he expresses what he is feeling. He’s always battling with his sister. An especially memorable moment is when Jackie gets under the table and tries to stab Nora with a butter knife because she is trying to get him to eat grandmother’s food (O’Connor, 357). O’Connor was also a battler: he just fought on a more adult scale. For example, he fought an extra year in the civil war in Ireland to free Ulster. While still in his in his teens, O’Connor joined the Irish Republican Army and fought in the civil war from 1919 to 1921. A treaty was signed that ended English occupation in Ireland, yet O’Connor continued to fight to include Ulster in the free state (“O’Donovan,” Contemporary).
Catholicism also plays a major role in “First Confession” and in O’Connor’s life. The story is a good example of how the often-harsh Irish life affects the Catholic world (Matthews 252). For example, in “First Confession”, Nora is ...

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