Created by Wilma McCauley
about 6 years ago
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Question | Answer |
Bobby Hero | Hates father "I go there everyday to see is he dead" |
has plan after father's death | "Burn the cottage and sell the two acres" |
naive | trusted Pokey "no one had a bad word to say" |
"shafted" | Pokey had not paid the stamp for his workers to get dole when the crash hit |
Peacemaker | "we subdued him,,, |
ashamed , embarassed | "You're some fool" "I know I am , my cheeks said back" |
has great relationship with wife Triona | "she doesn't blame me" My lovely lovely Triona" "she never let go of me" |
one time was proud of himself | thinking I was a great fella... foreman |
Clever | "I was as smart as any" |
working class | "posh lads |
Conforms | "I couldn't let on that I know anything" |
hard worker | "everyone knows you are a worker" |
respected | "people look up to you" |
murdurous | "I thought about killing my father" |
Belittled by his father | "useless prick" "shame to him" |
Jealous | Seanie Shaper |
difficult family dynamic | father drank farm mother "her holy hell" "sting of his tongue" |
loved mother" | "we were mad about each other" |
estranged from mother because of father | "We couldn't talk freely or easily" |
distraught when mother dies | I wanted to jump into the ground and drag her back out" |
Feared | "Pokey Burke was a bit afraid of me" |
finds it difficult to express emotions | "I was terrified of the lightness and loveliness of her" |
Fearful | "an orphaned child" |
Macho, Hard man | "with a woman you have an excuse for every sort of soft thing" |
regretful | "Tear spilled down my face" |
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