I am confused at this point in the story. Frank continues to love and respect his father, when his father loses all his jobs and spends all of the family's dole at the pub; leaving his family to starve. Frank proclaims the real Malachy Senior is the father he wakes up to, not the one drinking during the night at the pub. Every mourning Malachy Senior would sit and read the newspaper and tell Frank and the rest of his siblings stories, "if we say, Dad, tell us a story, he makes one up about someone in the lane and the story will take us all over the world, up in the air, under the sea and back to the lane"(209, McCourt). Why does Malachy Senior even bother telling his children stories when he wont even feed them? Malachy tells his sons that if they lived in America, everything would be different. He would get an office job and be able to support them. Why didn't he stay in New York with Angela when they met and then had the four children? Why did they move to Ireland? "I feel sad over the bad thing but I can't back away from him because the one in the mourning is my real father and if I were in America I could say, I love you, Dad, the way they do in the films, but you can't say that in Limerick for fear you might be laughed at" (210, McCourt). If his father wants to move back to America, why doesn't he get a job to try and move back? Why does he sit there and drink and proclaim everything would be better in America?
What confusses me the most is, Why doesn't Frank realize that if his father is to lazy to keep a job in Ireland, how is he going to be able to keep a job in America? America is built on hard work.
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