Needless to say, Miss Neary took advantage of Connell, who was too drunk to give proper sexual consent. What’s more, even in his drunken state he didn’t consent to her sexual advances, but she ignored him until the last minute (and only, it seems, because she didn’t want him to throw up on her). Such an encounter would be deeply troubling and even traumatizing for anyone, let alone someone like Connell, who is sensitive and often has trouble articulating his emotions, making it that much harder for him to assert himself by refusing Miss Neary’s advances.