Families Portrayed In Roddy Doyle's Books
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Why do we hear so much about family these days? Perhaps it is because
relationships between family members are assumed to be the prototype for all
other social relations. In the novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van,
Roddy Doyle shows his support of the family as an institution. Each ....
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.... bad for that matter, I just wanted to
show a typical Irish family."1 Doyle's writing is real--he deals with issues
that might not hit home with every reader however, they are events that
confront many people every day. The Rabbitte family is used in all three novels
that make up the "Barrytown Trilogy." While the times are both good and bad for
the eight members of this Irish family, in some way they find a way overcome
every problem that faces them.
One of Doyle's strengths is his feel fo ....
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