The
Dreams and Daggers Series is drawing to a close with the
December meeting.
«An Attack of Hunger» explores themes of emotional constraints within an
Irish family, focusing on the
dynamics between a smothering mother, a weak or distant father, and their son. The mother’s obsessive focus on her son, John, isolates her from her husband, perpetuating a cycle of coldness and emotional void in their marriage. The son’s decision to leave home to become a priest deepens her loneliness and sense of abandonment, while the husband, diminished in his role, passively supports the household.
