The Butcher Boy
...ugh he did some very horrible thing to the Nugent’s, McCabe has compassion for Brady. And the reader can feel the passion for Brady increase as the novel progresses. As Brady comes into more of a downfall with every page turning, McCabe slowly shows his crazy antics in his thoughts coming into a reality. Brady was not just a kid anymore, he became a lunatic mad man, with a twisted mind. McCabe’s creation of Francie Brady- In all his extravagant aberrance-harmonizes perfectly w/ Jordan’s continual interrogation of the limits and necessity of human reason.# The novel slowly turns to a more gothic side after Brady is released from being molested by Priest Tiddley and he lost his best friend Joe. The scene came at a very important time because Buttsy and his fellow family members had came to find Francie for tormenting their sister, Mrs. Nugent. After a while of slapping Francie around, Joe was asked why does he hang out with Francie still, and he replied with, “ I’m not hanging around with him. I used to hang around with him!”( pg. 119) From this point on life becomes hard for Francie to bear as he had lost his mother to being a lunatic, his father being a drunk, and now his best friend to his most hated family he has ever known.# Brady’s dreams come alive as he picks up his first job at a pig butcher shop. All day he spends there, smelling of pig blood and feces, and the workplace drives Brady into a scary place. The book takes a very sad, twisted end, as Brady becomes delusional, seeing The Mother Virgin Mary, and just losing his mind. Yet with all the drama and gothic images popping up in a the book, McCabe still finds ways of adding a little Irish dry humor to patch up the book. B...