's Ashes By Frank Mccourt: Relationship Between Francis And His Father

The Relationship Between Francis and his Father
In the memoir Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, the reader learns that the relationship between Francis and his father, Frank, is distant, sympathetic and guilt-driven. Francis has a distant relationship with his father, he was not present when Francis was rushed to the hospital by a doctor followed closely by his worried mother, who had already lost several children to serious illnesses, and however his father did not come with. His father visited him only once during his recovery in the hospital from a case of life threatening typhoid fever, “I’d like to see my father but I’m out of danger crisis time is over and I’m only allowed one visitor” (McCourt). In the hospital Francis’s father who rarely