Frank begins his life with a poor, large family with barely enough money to support the rent of their house and their food. He is the son of an alcoholic father and a constantly depressed mother whose time is mostly spent crying and whining about her hardships, but never applying any effort in solving them. Within his days of growing up, I feel this has had some influence on his emotional and intellectual development.

His mother's love and attention toward his son was not high within the story, reason being she spent most of the time too depressed to care, and when she was not in this state, she would devote most of her time to the younger children, Eugene and Tommy and Margaret, when she was alive.

His father was quite a bit more attached to his son than his mother, for even though he did nothing for his family by receiving the dole every Friday and drinki

ng his family's source for food away at the pub, he gave a lot more attention to Frank and his brothers and sister than his mother, who was too busy in her own misery.

All this shows that schooling was not the reason of Frank's learning ability and did affect it only in a negative way, but the reason for its growth was simply his thoughts and question he had to answer himself, through things such as Laman's library and the wonderful discovery of Shakespeare, whilst also just using his own mind.

His relatives bought a sense of shame to him throughout his years of growing up, he was not proud of such a poor and seemingly hopeless family to have as his own, showing this when he is ashamed of walking the streets with a pig's head, that his mother and father cannot afford to buy a proper christmas dinner. Another example being his first meaningful quote, consisting of "-miserable Irish catholic childhood".

These points do show genera

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