7/18/2023 0 Comments Son is the new man of the house![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He does the shopping for his mother and he goes to the dispensary to get the medication for his mother. Gus tries on several occasions to act older than his years. It is also after reading the story that the reader realises that O’Connor may be exploring the theme of responsibility. Taken from his Collected Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by a man called Gus Sullivan who is looking back at an incident in his life when he was ten years old. In The Man of the House by Frank O’Connor we have the theme of innocence, temptation, guilt, responsibility, control, resilience, redemption and acceptance. ![]()
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