The Irish short story ”Vodka on Sunday” by Fiona Gartland takes place in the home of a small family, mother, father and two kids, on a Sunday afternoon.. I find them richer than the average family, both because of their crystal lamp and cabinet filled with alcohols, but also because of the fact, that mother and daughter are enjoying drinks on the coach on a Sunday. That smells like upper class to me.
The mother, Nina, seems very mysterious. She has many secrets, which she keeps from the other members of the family. From her husband she keeps the fact, that she’s drinking vodka with her minor daughter. And from her daughter she keeps her past. She only comes near revealing it, when she is kind of intoxicated that Sunday.
I find Nina very feminine and she has a great charm. The text says:
“At parties she sparkles like someone’s sprinkled her with glitter.”
And that pretty much says it all. But apparently it is only at parties she sparkles like that. I think her husband is keeping that side of her down. He is trying to keep her in the part as a housewife and not that flirtatious, festive girl, which I believe she was and she missed to be. And that’s the reason why she is having her own little party with her daughter, when he is not home. I also think she wants to include her daughter in the life she used to live, but her super-ego – which in this case is caused by her husband – is telling her not to. Therefore she only tries to, when she is drunk. In the text Nina says:
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