“I might just as well be a sinner like you" - “First Confession”
Nora aspires to be ‘a sinner’ like Jackie because she deduces that being a sinner is more recompensing than being devout. Nora wails, “"Lord God…some people have all the luck! 'Tis no advantage to anybody trying to be good. I might just as well be a sinner like you." The rancorous wailing is attributed to covetousness. The priest treats Jackie favorably by offering him “three Hail Marys and bullseyes” after owning up all the dreadful sins that he envisioned to commit such as forecasting to exterminate Nora and his grandmother. Nora regards Jackie as a sinner who should not get a more favorable treatment than her who is a religiously staunch girl. However, she apprehends that her piousness neither approves her nor discriminate her from the ‘sinful’ Jackie.
“But you’re not thinking of going to the funeral?” - “The Drunkard”
Larry’s mother surreptitiously dissents her husband’s presence of the burial. The disapproval is accredited to the opportunity cost of forfeiting a pay equivalent to half a day’s labour should he be extant at the funeral. The query is ironic because Larry’s father and Mr. Dooley were intimate associates before Mr. Dooley’s departure. Therefore, one would suppose him gracing his presence his acquaintance’s funeral in lieu of concentrating on the earnings that he would forgo because the Mr. Dooley’s existence was more valued than the half-day’s paycheck. Accordingly, instead of proffering an ironic interrogation, Larry’s mother should have sanctioned the appearance at the funeral as the ultimate deference to Mr. Dooley.
