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Casey Imperiale
Irish Lit
Final Exam Paper

An important part of Irish literature is family and roots. Where the character comes from and who his family is. Your parents make you what and who you are. In two important pieces of work from Synge and Joyce we see that a character's father is a huge influence on who and what that character is, for good or ill.
In Playboy of the Western World, we hear much about Christy's father but only meet him at the end of the tale. It can be inferred that although Christy was lying about having murdered his father, he was quite truthful about his father's less than sterling qualities. Mahon Senior seems to be a violent, alcoholic, bullying lout of a man, although he becomes a different man when confronted by the new and more confident Christy.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Simon Dedalus is not as flagrantly unfit to be a father as Mahon Senior, but neither is he exemplary. He is at best a large and distant figure for most of......

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