Bobby Hero Spinning Heart

Question	Answer
Bobby Hero	Hates father "I go there everyday to see is he dead"
has plan after father's death	"Burn the cottage and sell the two acres"
naive	trusted Pokey "no one had a bad word to say"
"shafted"	Pokey had not paid the stamp for his workers to get dole when the crash hit
Peacemaker	"we subdued him,,,
ashamed , embarassed	"You're some fool" "I know I am , my cheeks said back"
has great relationship with wife Triona	"she doesn't blame me" My lovely lovely Triona" "she never let go of me"
one time was proud of himself	thinking I was a great fella... foreman
Clever	"I was as smart as any"
working class	"posh lads
Conforms	"I couldn't let on that I know anything"
hard worker	"everyone knows you are a worker"
respected	"people look up to you"
murdurous	"I thought about killing my father"
Belittled by his father	"useless prick" "shame to him"
Jealous	Seanie Shaper
difficult family dynamic	father drank farm mother "her holy hell" "sting of his tongue"
loved mother"	"we were mad about each other"
estranged from mother because of father	"We couldn't talk freely or easily"
distraught when mother dies	I wanted to jump into the ground and drag her back out"
Feared	"Pokey Burke was a bit afraid of me"
finds it difficult to express emotions	"I was terrified of the lightness and loveliness of her"
Fearful	"an orphaned child"
Macho, Hard man	"with a woman you have an excuse for every sort of soft thing"
regretful	"Tear spilled down my face"

Resource summary

	Created by Wilma McCauley almost 8 years ago