Angela’s Everlasting Impact
In “Angela’s Ashes” Frank McCourt portrays women as key characters in the book that overall had a major impact on his life in Ireland. He states that “Angela’s Ashes” is a hymn to the exaltation to women, which most would consider an accurate statement because throughout the story he points out key characters that have a major impact on his life. He portrays his mother and his Aunt Aggie as two women who impacted his life for the better but overall he portrays women as strong-willed. His mother is one of the most important characters in his story given that at such a young age he remembers his mother doing everything she can to provide for the family. He describes her as loving and not overbearing considering the
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She gives me two shillings to have tea and a bun for my birthday. She gets on the bus to go back up O’Connell Street too fat and lazy to walk. Fat and lazy, no son of her own, and still she buys me the clothes for my new job (McCourt 310).
This quote shows that McCourt has a deep respect for women in general because instead of portraying his Aunt as someone that he doesn’t necessary idolize, he points out key aspects of her character that resemble a strong willed person.
Frank McCourt’s story “Angela’s Ashes” is a significant piece of literature that takes the reader in at every turn. He does an incredible job portraying his experience and how certain women in his life have impacted his overall picture of women. McCourt portrays women as strong-willed for the most part, despite how some women come across as mean or rude towards him. He learns to see past their first impressions and learns to see their true desire to help others, which is why he has a lot of respect for women. McCourt’s statement that his book is a “hymn to the exaltation of women” would be accurate because, through his use of diction and the way he describes women in his story, women are for the most part depicted as characters that McCourt has a deep respect for. McCourt also names the book “Angela’s Ashes” for a reason, that reason being, he wants to make this story a tribute to his mother because she sacrificed so much for him to get to where he is