The short story „Red Truck“ written by Maria Behan in 2006 is about a guy called Fintan who is being tricked by Sylvia to get his stuff out of his old mother’s house because she’s moving. When he finds a red truck in one of his boxes, he begins to think about his childhood. He remembers how he got the red truck at his 6th birthday and that it was his favorite toy until he lost it. After he searched in the whole house, he thought his brother took it to make a joke of him. After a while he found the truck in a field and so he remembered how he lost it while running away from peter. He didn’t know what to do but then he took it in his wardrobe because nobody should ever know. He doesn’t want the others to know the true story so he runs to his mother to tell her that he founded the truck in his brother’s box.
Fintan is fifty years old and he always has young girlfriends who all are art students. He never settled down with a family or something like this, because he has a big problem with the time, he can’t deal with it. He always thought the years would pass slowly. In his opinion it doesn’t matter if he won’t be that old. He has no plans for his future. Many people told him to get a job but Fintan never did. He doesn’t earn much money with his sculptures. Fintan can’t confess his own mistakes, what you can see at the point when he tells her mother that he found the red truck in his brother’s room, although he had have it all the time. Furthermore it seems that the relationship between Fintan and is family isn’t very nice. For example his mother called Sylvia to make him to pick up his stuff, moreover he accuses his brother to steal his read truck. It seems that Fintan won’t forgive his brothers bullying him in his childhood, even when he’s an adult. He hasn’t got another education as an artist.
He always loved his red truck because he thought that this is a very