![]() Furlong feels that he was granted a lucky break, although not knowing his real father’s identity plagues him. Wilson-Furlong was able to go to technical school, run his own business, and support a family. Thus, with the encouragement of his makeshift family unit-his mother Mrs. Wilson, his mother’s Protestant employer, who allowed his mother, Sarah, to continue working there and encouraged Furlong in his education, even giving him a copy of The Christmas Carol. ![]() However, he was given good opportunities, thanks to the generosity of Mrs. This is, in part, because he feels like an outsider, as he was born to an unmarried domestic servant in conservative, small-town Ireland, where the Catholic Church runs all public institutions. 'Small Things Like These' is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. He gives money to the needy and employs the new Russian and Eastern European immigrants whom others find suspicious. ![]() Furlong is of a more compassionate, egalitarian bent than most New Ross residents, who are content to keep their heads down and “stay on the right side of people” (13) in positions of power, such as the wealthy and the Church. ![]()
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