What is a critical analysis of the short story "The Stoat" by John McGahern?

There
are a few interconnected stories happening in The Stoat that might influence your analysis.
The story takes place near Strandhill, a coastal village in Co. Sligo, Ireland, where a widowed
teacher vacations with his son. One story regards the teacher, who, looking for companionship,
puts out an ad in the paper seeking a potential wife. Then there's the story about the
relationship between the teacher, his son (the narrator, who's starting college as a medical
student), and the teacher's brother who lives nearby. Finally, there's the story of a stoat who
kills a rabbit at a golf course in the first scene. The narrator brings the dead rabbit back to
the cottage, intending to prepare a meal, and as the narrative progresses, we wonder if the
stoat and rabbit story serves to help us digest The Stoat.

The teacher
receives many responses to his ad and meets quite a few women before Miss McCabe, a
schoolteacher somewhere in her forties, rather frail, and excitable. McCabe...