my oedipus complex point of view
Point Of View of “My Oedipus Complex” by Frank O’Conner
In My Oedipus Complex story, the point of view is from Larry’s side. This story began when Larry’s father is away fighting in the war, and Larry develops a misunderstood attraction toward his mother, a situation which becomes complicated by his father’s return home and the parents’ decision to have another child. If we see from Larry’s side, it will always talk about Larry’s feeling, the jealousness to his father and how to get mother’s attentions. It will become a conflict of this story. But when we see from mother’s side, there will be happy family story. It just an ordinary family story, the family consist of father, mother and two sons. The real conflict is in Larry’s own self. It can be said that there is a conflict in this story when it is seen by Larry’s point of view, but there is not conflict at all when it’s seen by others point of view.
We also know that O’Connor use Larry as a narrator, the first-person point of view, as the information before, a whole story from Larry’s side, feeling and vision, for example in this part of the story
In the afternoon, at Mother’s request, Father took me for a walk. This time we went into town instead of out in the country, and I thought at first, in my usual optimistic way, that it might be an improvement. It was nothing of the sort ........When I wanted to stop he simply went on, dragging me behind him by the hand; when he wanted to stop I had no alternative but to do the same. I noticed that it seemed to be a sign that he wanted to stop for a long time whenever he leaned against a wall. The second time I saw him do it I got wild. He seemed to be settling himself forever ........Father had an extraordinary capacity for amiable inattention .......but he seemed to be too remote to be annoyed even by that ..... I had never met anyone so absorbed in him self as he seemed
From the text above it is clear that Larry just guessing what is his father like. It just
In My Oedipus Complex story, the point of view is from Larry’s side. This story began when Larry’s father is away fighting in the war, and Larry develops a misunderstood attraction toward his mother, a situation which becomes complicated by his father’s return home and the parents’ decision to have another child. If we see from Larry’s side, it will always talk about Larry’s feeling, the jealousness to his father and how to get mother’s attentions. It will become a conflict of this story. But when we see from mother’s side, there will be happy family story. It just an ordinary family story, the family consist of father, mother and two sons. The real conflict is in Larry’s own self. It can be said that there is a conflict in this story when it is seen by Larry’s point of view, but there is not conflict at all when it’s seen by others point of view.
We also know that O’Connor use Larry as a narrator, the first-person point of view, as the information before, a whole story from Larry’s side, feeling and vision, for example in this part of the story
In the afternoon, at Mother’s request, Father took me for a walk. This time we went into town instead of out in the country, and I thought at first, in my usual optimistic way, that it might be an improvement. It was nothing of the sort ........When I wanted to stop he simply went on, dragging me behind him by the hand; when he wanted to stop I had no alternative but to do the same. I noticed that it seemed to be a sign that he wanted to stop for a long time whenever he leaned against a wall. The second time I saw him do it I got wild. He seemed to be settling himself forever ........Father had an extraordinary capacity for amiable inattention .......but he seemed to be too remote to be annoyed even by that ..... I had never met anyone so absorbed in him self as he seemed
From the text above it is clear that Larry just guessing what is his father like. It just