Essay on Mary Beckett's "A Belfast Woman".

"Belfast Woman" is a short story of an elderly woman, Mrs Harrison, who lives as a Catholic in a street where mainly Protestants own most of the houses. She has to face many difficulties to live on in a country where religion has such a great effect on people's life. The story starts with a so called " in medias res ", as Mrs Harrison gets the threatening letter and reader is initiated in the Irish events …

…The most of us nevr did anything but stay quite and put things the way they were. And we neverthaught our children to hate the others nor filled their heads with their wrongs the way it's said we did. When all young people thought they could fix everything with marches and meetings: I said it wouldn't work and they laughed at me....I were warning them, "It'll all lead to shooting and burning and murder. "