MY OEDIPUS COMPLEX “Life is hard, you’re just afraid of change,” is what the late, great Shannon Hunh, of Blind Melon, wrote, and it is just how Larry feels in Frank O’Connor’s, “My Oedipus Complex.” In this short story, Larry, a five year old boy obsessed with his mother, suddenly sees a drastic change in his life when his father returns home from war. The tension between father and son grow until …showed first 75 words of 992 total…

…showed last 75 words of 992 total…their parents. Especially one who has not lived with his Father and suddenly falls into this extreme change in lifestyle. He becomes jealous and rude not knowing what has really happened. He has never lived this way, with a man in his Mother’s bed. Change is the only thing that ever stays constant. And a change happened. A change that brought the first change (Father) and him closer together as opposed to farther apart.