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Mrs. Ryan and the Priest In Frank O’Connor’s story â€Å"First Confession†, Mrs. Ryan and the cleric are extraordinary. Mrs. Ryan and the cleric approach Jackie contrastingly and have various effects on him. Mrs. Ryan causes Jackie to feel like a delinquent in her way to deal with him. She shows him how to analyze his heart by asking himself a couple of inquiries, â€Å"Did we take the name of the Lord, our God in Vain? Did we respect our dad and mom? Did we love our neighbors as ourselves? Did we pine for our neighbors goods?†(614). This caused Jackie to feel like he is a miscreant since he feels that he was not respecting his grandma and feels that he pined for Nora’s penny she got each week from their grandma. Mrs. Ryan influences Jackie by causing him to feel that admission is frightening. Subsequent to revealing to her tale about the mama...