![]() Together with his two subsequent novels The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991) The Commitments is part of the so called Barrytown Trilogy all of which focus on middle-class family life in Dublin. ![]() Doyle has often been criticized for drawing a rather dark picture of the working class, although this had not been the author’s intention.ĭoyle’s book, however, was by no means meant to be open criticism but rather a comic portrayal of Dublin and its people that, perhaps inevitably, provoked some sensitive reactions. The Commitments is the first literary work to portray the living conditions of the working class in Dublin in the 1980s (Ghassempur 2009, 17). Roddy Doyle’s first novel The Commitments was published in 1987. 3.1 Use of vernacular instead of standard speechĤ Implications of the language used by the characters ![]()
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