On Domestic Ethical Relationship In Frank O' Connor's Short Story

Frank O'Connor is a famous storyteller of Ireland in 20 th century. His short story concentrated in describing Ireland lives of ordinary Irish people, especially the characters and events extracted from everyday family life. O'Connor's concern of daily life are performing on describing individual emotional experience and domestic ethics relations.We have four part here:Part one mainly discusses the ethical concern in O'Connor's writing, the family life of writer, the socio-culture background of his years and the pursuit of ideal domestic play important roles in the ethical express of his short stories.Part two mainly discusses the intergeneration relationship in short stories, there are two extreme intergeneration relationships in O'Connor's short stories: intimate relationship of mother and son, alienated relationship of father and son. Mother-son rely on and care about each other, father-son have huge estrangement between each other.Part three mainly discusses the siblings relationship in short stories, the “hate and envy” complex and conflict is the status between them. Sisters' relationship is have been changed, they never help each other, they just belittle each other to find a balance, and the brothers also can stimulate worse conflict because of the copmplex.Part four mainly discusses the spouse relationship in short stories, try to analysis the conflict in marriage because of the deficiency of love, and the imbalance status because of the equalization of responsibility.