Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Friendship. Billy is left staring down at the floor as Kate quietly enters from the back room. KATE: She is not a very nice girl anyway, Billy. BILLY

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Friendship. Billy is left staring down at the floor as Kate quietly enters from the back room. KATE: She is not a very nice girl anyway, Billy. BILLY: Was you listening, Aunty Kate? KATE: I wasn’t listening or alright, I was a bit listening. (Pause) You wait for a nice girl to come along, Billy. A girl who doesn’t mind at all what you look like. Just sees your heart (Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan 80).

The essay examines the friendship theme as developed in Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan and another story relating to John M. Synge, “The Aran Islands” giving an account of his relationship with the people he met. The essay will compare and contrast friendship between Helen and Billy and how the writer in “ The Aran Islands” is treated by the locals. The essay aims at showing the different types of friendship.

Billy is handicapped and he relates well with Helen. From the phrase, they are leaving each other after being together. It seems there is a close relationship between the two characters. At one point, we see how considerate Billy. Billy is handicapped and Helen is willing to help him in many ways. Does she help him out of love?? Or is because he is handicapped? It seems that Helen is after something, and that is why she is befriending Billy. The friendship of Billy and Helen is not genuine, because, at one point, Helen pays for a boat trip with kisses. She disguises it with love and insists on paying for what Billy is offering to her. However, no friendship ties are evident.

Helen mistreats Billy much and doesn’t care about his health conditions, at one point. she comes looking at the condition of Billy. However, she is doing it because she is after something and wants to benefit from Billy. She is disguising herself through fake concerns. Helen is mishandling Billy and laughs at him, making him upset. On the other hand, Kate acknowledges that Helen is not considerate.