How Is Malachy Mccourt Selfish

Fathers’ Selfishness Malachy McCourt is not the most pleasant character in the novel, also not the best father because he is selfish. Throughout most of the novel the reader sees the real side of him and lets everybody know that he is not a good father, throughout the novel he is drinking or drunk. Throughout the entire novel Malachy shows love to his family a few times. Sometimes the kids love when their father is drunk because that is one of the few times he shows his love. Malachy is very selfish because he makes his family do everything; he also disrespects his family, and drinks all the money they get as a family.

In the novel when Malachy was not able to go get coal for his family, He said that he was not going to be a beggar when Frankie picked up a piece of coal. He did not care if his kid was sick or if it was cold in the room. Malachy was too much of a macho to pick up the coal even though he really needed the coal for his family. Without thinking of the consequences he made his family go and beg for coal.
Whenever being out in the pubs that is a big disrespect towards his family. It disrespects his family in a way that it seems he does not care a single bit because most of the time he spends is being drunk when actually he should waste that time with his family. At this point everything looks bad on Malachy but further actions is what really degrades him from being a father. When one of his children passed away instead of being there at his funeral he decides to drink. When he actually shows up to his son 's funeral he is drunk and shows a huge disrespect when he sets his drink on the child 's coffin. It really hurts everybody even his other smaller children that actually tend to notice this small detail and exposes his feelings saying how sad he is by his father committing this