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Plot Summary It is December 1985 in the town of New Ross , County Wexford. The protagonist , Bill Furlong , is a coal seller who is married to Eileen , and they have five daughters.
Summary. In Chapter 6, Furlong returns home from the convent. Eileen informs him that he has missed first Mass; Furlong—without mentioning the woman he found in the coal house—tells her that he had tea at the convent. They open the envelope from Mother Superior to find a large Christmas tip.
Furlong is the central character, and the antagonist is the convent, one of Furlong's most loyal customers. The main conflict in the novel emerges when Furlong confronts the nuns over the mistreatment of the girls that they are supposed to protect and nature.
Bill Furlong. Furlong, the novel’s protagonist and the character Keegan follows through third-person closed perspective, is referred to by his last name in the narration, although the other characters call him Bill.
Claire Keegan’s novella Small Things Like These is written from the third-person limited perspective. Keegan utilizes the past tense throughout the narrative. Bill Furlong is the coal and timber merchant in a small Irish town in the mid-1980s.
Summary. Bill Furlong is a coal and timber merchant in his late 30s, who is married and has five daughters. His mother became pregnant at the age of 16 and was cut off by her family, but Mrs Wilson, the Protestant widow who employed her, kept her on and Bill grew up in her house.
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The protagonist is Furlong, Eileen's husband and father to five daughters. Unlike the previous Christmas festivities, this year is harder economically. Furlong is a merchant dealer specializing in coal and timber, and he has about ten employees.
