Ronnie Clay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My spot on "Eureka Street"


Ronnie Clay & Hotel Europa 

The Europa Hotel made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most often bombed hotel. It was bombed 33 times so it was built up again 33 times. 
One of the workers who is involved in the reconstruction in the novel is Ronnie Clay.

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Ronnie Clay is a worker building up the hotel Europa in Belfast's centre again. As a member of the team he is one of Jake's colleagues. The team consists of members with a Protestant confession. Jake Jackson is the only Catholic. The oldest worker, Ronnie Clay, is a man who hates Catholics and who sets the pack on them. That's the reason why Jake prefers keeping his Catholic confession towards his colleagues secret . 

He not only hates Catholics but Ronnie Clay additionally hates people with a non- white colour of the skin. The Arab Rijinder is often treated badly  by the racist Ronnie Clay. That often makes Jake angry about Ronnie. 

But there's something even more terrible than his racist attitude. Ronnie suffers from a disabilty to sleep. To solve this problem Ronnie had some therapies but they didn't bring any result. One of the doctors gave him the advice of trying to think about something nice (trees, beaches etc.) to fall into sleep. In principle that method didn't have a result either. Because of not succeeding Ronnie modified this method - he started thinking about how to erase blacks and non- whites. That made him able to fall asleep. 

His attitude towards women is very doubtful, too. When a woman crosses his way he starts shouting obscene remarks at her. The chapter to proof this best is chapter fifteen starting at page 279: Ronnie shouts his obscene remarks to Aoirghe and "asks" her whether she is willing to do a quick blowjob. Aoirghe, the girl without any fear, approaches Ronnie who continues shouting obscene sentences. He asks her whether she "wants to empty his bollocks". In principle she does so but in a different way Ronnie would have liked to. She grabs his testicles and squeezes them so hard that Ronnie nearly loses his consciousness. 

The woman stopped abruptly and looked Ronnie full in the face. Some others cheered. they waited for her feeble objection. They became quiet as she walked up to Ronnie. This has never happened before. One or two briefly thought that Ronniewas going to recieve some of the sexual services he had requested.

It was not to be. The woman simply grabbed Ronnie's testicles and started to squeeze. ronnie crumpled, his knees bent but he did not fall. The woman squeezed harder. Ronnie's face went white. ..." (p. 281).

Summarizing this, it can be concluded that Ronnie Clay is a very crazy man who is more than ill in his head. 

Max Klotter a.k.a. NACHTFUXXX

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