Stevie's Jacket Case Study
Many of the sign that McCann tries to transmit also appears between father, Katie and the soldiers where she is objectified and acts as a medium to demonstrates this teeter top effect yet again. This clash of possession is shown when father calls Katie over “come here Katie, and he stood me by the window and he took the long curtain in his hands. He turned me around and wrapped the curtain around me and he took my hair and started rubbing not tender but hard” (348). Due to Katie obliviousness to the current situation, she discards father emotion and accepts that he is simply trying to dry her off because she was shivering under Stevie’s jacket. The jacket is an object that envelopes Katie, it emanates the fume of possession, father keen to