In the wake of the obstinacies between the Protestantism and Catholicism in Northern Ireland many people found themselves torn by to different opinions. In fact, many people did not dare to speak their right words, at that time of being. Some families experienced great losses, due to the battle between tribes. This happened to the main character in Bernie McGill’s short story “No Angle” from the anthology The Best British Short Stories 2011. The main theme in this short story is how to move on after a tremendous loss. This essay will particularly focus on Annie and how her life goes on after her father’s, mother’s and brother’s death. The narrator is a 1st person narrator: Annie who is the main character in the story. The language is based on flashbacks and non-formal words. The story is written as how Annie sees the situation, when she is in it; “Situation vacant: prospective daughter-in-law.1” The sentence constructions are fully made, and even though it is something she thinks, the reader reads it as if Annie read it to us. This makes the story narrative and detailed. The story changes between monologue and dialogue between Annie and her father. This adds opinion to the story; the story is not only seen from Annie’s point of view, but also through her father’s. Annie’s character reflects the meanings and opinions of her father. She is (assumption wise) in her early forties, and has a boyfriend called Thomas. The reader does not know which side Annie’s family is on in the conflict in Northern Ireland. Yet the side Thomas’s family is on is not the side Annie’s family is on. This is first seen in the meeting between Annie and her parent-in-law; “They were far too middle class for religion to be an issue.2” The fact that Annie even points this out to the reader must mean that the two families are at opposite sides of the issues about religion. The contrast between the families is that Thomas’s fam