Angelas Ashes

1
Angelas Ashes

• Pages 319-337

2
Reuniting the Family

• Alphie, Michael and Angela eventually move in
  with Frank at the Abbots house
• Angela is cut off from the Dispensary because
  Frank brings home a pound a week
• Equivalent to four dollars a week in America

3
Reuniting the Family

• Frank has to hand over his earnings to his mother
• Some weeks she lets me keep two shillings but if
  I go to a film or buy a secondhand book theres
  nothing left, I wont be able to save for my
  fare, and Ill be stuck in Limerick till Im an
  old man of twenty-five. (319)

4
Reuniting the Family

• Malachy quits playing the trumpet for the army
  band and returns home
• Tone
• Hope?
• Were all together again, no Laman tormenting
  us. (319)
• We sit on the floor and tell stories about
  things that happened, things that never happened
  and things that will happen when we all go to
  America. (320)

5
Theresa Carmody

• Has the consumption
• Shes seventeen, in and out of the sanatorium,
  and shell never see eighteen. (323)
• Beautiful
• She has red hair. She had green eyes like the
  fields beyond Limerick. (323)

6
Theresa Carmody

• Intimacy and Ignorance
• Frank falls in love with Theresa
• Prays that she will be cured of the consumption
• It doesnt matter anyway, St. Francis, because I
  love Theresa. I love her as much as you love any
  bird or beast or fish and will you tell God take
  the consumption away and I promise Ill never go
  near her again. (325)

7
Theresa Carmody

• Theresa dies
• Guilt
• Next day, Sunday, I go to four Masses. I do the
  Stations of the Cross three times. I say rosaries
  all day. I go without food and drink and wherever
  I find a quiet place I cry and beg God and the
  Virgin Mary to have mercy on the soul of Theresa
  Carmody. (325)
• Frank believes he is responsible for sending
  Theresa to hell.

8
Theresa Carmody

• Love
• I cant understand the feelings going through me
  but I know that with all the people who died in
  my family and all the people who died in the
  lanes around me and all the people who left I
  never had a pain like this in my heart and I hope
  I never will again. (325)

9
Mrs. Brigid Finucane

• Hires Frank to write nasty letters for her in
  order to collect money from poor people in the
  lane who owe her.
• Frank is very good at writing the letters
• Mrs. Finucane collects money very quickly

10
Mrs. Brigid Finucane

• Frank feels guilty
• Im sorry for their troubles but theres no
  other way for me to save the money for America.
  (333)
• Frank steals from Mrs. Finucane
• Feels the stealing is justified because of
  overtime and the way the church slammed the door
  on his face.

11
Franks New Job

• Frank plans on taking the exam to become a
  permanent postman.
• Inspiration from Uncle Pa
• If you pass the exam youll stay in the post
  office nice and secure the rest of your life.
  Youll marry a Brigid and have five little
  Catholics and grow little roses in your garden.
  Youll be dead in your head before youre
  thirtyMake up your own bloody mind and to hell
  with the safeshots and begrudgers. Do you hear
  me, Frankie McCourt?...Tis your life, make your
  own decisions and to hell with the begrudgers,
  Frankie. (334)

12
Franks New Job

• Frank decides not to take the postal exam.
• Frank gets a new job for a magazine/newspaper
  distributor.