My Oedipus Complex

"The author choses a unique title for the story. The readers of this story are familiar with psychology and Greek mythology will understand significiant tie of the title to the story." According to the story, Larry in my oedipus complex represents The Greek Oedipus. "Oedipus Complex is a bizarre and interesting theory
that psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud created.The Oedipus Complex is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain feelings in childhood. These feelings consist of the thoughts of male child who unconsciously desires for the exclusive love of his mother. This desire includes jealously towards the father. The Greek myth of Oedipus and my Oedipus complex are described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness first occuring around the age of five and a half years."
Characterization:
Larry: Larry is pratogonist. We can know his thoughts and feelings. He is round character. There are changes in his life along with the father's arrival and the baby's birth. He is about five. He is fond of his mother. He is oddity and he has deeply strange feelings towards his mother. He goes her mother's bed every morning. She speaks with him and he is very happy. But after his father arrival, he is unhappy because her mother begins to care about her husband. He is jealous of his father. In addition, the arrival of the baby irritates Larry.
Father: He joins the World War II. Whenever he turns from war, Larry becomes irritable. Throughout the story, Larry often associates his father to Santa Claus because his father is amysterious character who comes and goes unnoticed. In addition, Larry's father sometime bears interesting gifts such as German
uniforms, weapons, artifacts from the war.
Conflicts:
Internal conflict of Larry: He is in conflict with himself. According to Larry, his life is happier when it is just himself and his mother. He enjoys things like tea time, storing out the attic window and chatting his mother. Although Larry seems happy, he does not really have the opportunity to play with other children his peers. Because he does not have any friend, Larry calls his feet "Mrs.Left and Mrs.Right" and plays with them to cope with his problems and boredom. Although he is a little child, he behaves like his father to attract his mother for example he reads newspaper and smokes like his father.
Ironies:
1. Although Larry always prays God to bring father safely home, he is upset after his father'S arrival. He thinks that his mother does not care about him as in the past. That's why he wants that new war breaks out and he wants his father to go war.
2. Because of the arrival of baby, interaction between the whole family changes. Firstly, Larry is jealous of his father then he is also jealous of new baby. In the morning Larry's father begins to go Larry'a bed because the mother only copes about baby. Larry realizes that the problem is not his father, but his mother's care.