My Left Foot 4

Library: Dr Cole comes in. The nurse Mary is reading 
while Christy sleeps.
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Second flashback: Christy as an adolescent
• Christy celebrates his 17th birthday.
• Christy is playing football on the street.
• He plays ‘spin the bottle’ with other friends and gets a kiss from
Rachel.
• Christy is shown as someone who cannot express himself the
same ways as others – he paints to express himself while his
brothers sleep and his sister comes home from a date.
• Paddy Brown loses his job after hitting the foreman.
• Rachel turns down Christy’s affections.
• The family eat cold porridge as a result of Paddy’s
unemployment. There is much tension in the home. Paddy
cannot understand Christy’s jokes and is provoked while the
others laugh. 
• Christy and his brothers steal coal. Their mother gives out to
them. 
• The money box is discovered hidden up the chimney.
• Christy’s sister announces she is pregnant. When the father
insults her, Christy reacts furiously.
Library: Christy is talking with Mary and drinks whiskey.
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Christy meets Eileen
• Christy meets Dr Eileen Cole. 
• He is taken to the clinic. His mother is concerned that he will be
disappointed. 
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Christy develops a relationship with Eileen 
• Christy rejects the clinic and stays at home. Eileen calls to
persuade him and gives him a copy of 
Hamlet
. 
• Christy starts working with her at home and slowly falls in love
with her. 
• Eileen organises an exhibition of his paintings at her boyfriend
Peter’s gallery. Christy’s mother realises what is happening to
Christy and expresses her concern to Paddy. 
• At dinner following the opening, Christy gets very drunk and
causes a scene after expressing his love for Eileen.
• Christy feels despair. He observes his parents’ affection and
attempts to cut himself.