The Problem with Oliver by Maggie O’Farrell

roughly teenagers sustain experienced that odd moment when their parents hit the sack what they are doing, unconstipated though they seaportt told them and they certainly dont equivalent being compared to their parents. Young people consider themselves as individuals who assume zip fastener in common with their parents but in fact they might have more in common with their elders than they think. The latter might be the fibre for the main character in Maggie OFarrells short layer The Problem with Oliver, Fionnuala, who is a perfect, and almost stereotypical, example of a teenager of the sorting mentioned in the sentences above.This short story covers some of the greatest problems and themes, we are all in all likely to encounter in our own life somehow. It is about the blood between female parent and daughter and about social heritage, how we all write out with growing up, falling in love which is most likely to be kept secret by young people. What to do, when the one youre in love with comes from a culture that is despised by your closest family. When the bugger off is experiencing her first out-of- form experience and tells Fionnuala about it, Fionnuala is rather sceptical and is wondering if her drive has been smoking.She makes it clear to herself, that her come has officially gone mad, and she is frustrated and tries to erase the feasible similarities between Fionnuala and her mother. They dont even look alike non anymore. Not since Fionnuala has started straightening her hair. In which, you could say that Fionnuala will most likely not want to look like her mad mother. But the out of body experience made Grainne wonder if her daughter was going to make the alike(p) mistake by bringing Oliver along to the beach hut. She is laughing, probably arduous to laugh it off and make Fionnuala understand it.She then says Then I realised it was you, and I was me, in here, in the kinsperson. (l. 71) In which could mean that Grainne is will to l et her daughter manage it in her own way. Fionnuala may not repeat the mistake, because she could differ so much from Grainne. Fionnuala has an slope boyfriend, Oliver. The mother havent heard about their relationship from Fionnuala, and Fionnuala is afraid of letting her know, because of her disliking of English men as equal to weak tea and amoebic dysentery (l. 49). The mother is exceedingly fond of Irish folklore and treasures the antediluvian patriarch traditions.And her fondness is clearly convey in the name she has given her daughter the name Fionnuala was, according to Fionnuala herself, an ancient Irish princess who turned into a swan. But it is obvious that Fionnuala is ashamed of her mothers eccentric behaviour when she first met Oliver, she introduced herself as Finn, unable to amplify the two last syllables in her name out of sheer embarrassment. The episode, where Fionnualas mother Grainne hides the key to the beach hut from her daughter, could very well be the resu lt of a bad experience from Grainnes younger years.We know from the text that Grainne moved to England to escape the fury of her family, and since Grainne is able to hide forward the key to the beach hut, it could be a sign of her trying to repeal repeating the episode. This looks very much alike the episode, where Grainne sits on a terrace and she spots a cat that is about to make it a lam for the crumb-pecking finch. (ll. 25-33) Grainne is preventing the cat from getting to the bird by throwing a cloth towards a window.In the same way, she is attempting to scare Fionnuala or teach her a lesson, and maybe pitch her from something that could go wrong, like it did for Grainne, when she was younger. So Grainne knows, that there is something bothering Fionnuala, maybe that she havent done it yet, and almost the rest of the school has. In the text, Grainne warns Fionnuala about not giving in for peer pressure, and that would save a lot of touch later. Right when Fionnuala had canc elled the date with Oliver and gone terribly mad at her mother, she founds the key on her bed, and her mother is gone.Grainne would maybe rather run absent herself than run the risks of getting furious with Fionnualas boyfriend, so Fionnuala did not have to run anywhere. By growing up, your sense of realism is developing, the older you get. So as the dark, twisted branches of the hawthorn tree tap-tap against the side of the house, as if absent to come in, could be referred to as the reality, wanting to come inside the house her mind. Grainne knows what is going on, and therefore, things may get easier for Fionnuala in the future. She could maybe be part between her mothers strong Irish standards and her boyfriends English ways.