Frank Mccourt Analysis

Children often do not understand the impact of the things they see. From Frank McCourt’s point of view as a child, his thoughts are directly written down and we see how he saw the world in a naive way and bluntly tells us the story of his hard life. Franks view of his father shows us that he never understands that alcoholism has taken over his father's life, and he cannot get better from that point. He never sees his father as a bad guy at first until later when he grows up, “I feel sad over the bad things but I can’t back away from him because the one in the morning is my real father and if I were in America I could say, I love you, Dad, the way they do in the films”(210). Frank doesn’t understand alcoholism and calls it the ‘bad thing’, and …show more content…
“Fintan’s flat is like a chapel. There are two pictures, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary”(158). He does not understand that there is a class difference between the three of them, including the time Fintan’s mother offers them a sandwich and Frank says that he has never had mustard, while Patty says he never had a sandwich before. Frank dismisses the thought because he never considered that there were levels to classes and poverty. Classism also appears when Frank is rejected by the church and never has a chance to be an altar boy because of the way he dressed and smelled. He doesn’t think much of it because he never wanted to be one anyway. Frank takes things too lightly; including death. Death has become a constant thing in his life, that he is able to disregard Mickey's death. “Billy Campbell says, We’ll go back to St.Joseph's and pray that from now on everyone in Mickey Spellacy’s family will die in the middle of the summer and he’ll never get a day off from school for the rest of his life. One of our prayers is surely powerful because next summer Mickey himself is carried off by the galloping