This paper is designed to historicize Roddy Doyle’s novel, The Snapper, and  its  character  Sharon’s  perseverance  to  keep  her  privacy  with   her pregnancy in  terms  of  Irish  gendered  morals.  It  is  particularly  argued that Sharon   is   a   modern   reincarnation   of   the   Magdalene   women,   whose misrepresented sexuality made them reduced to being moral opprobrium by the means  of  turning  them  into  social  outcasts.  The  Magdalene  Laundries  in history, which accommodated the defamed women, are prime examples of the Irish Catholic support for the State in implementing moral practices. Sharon’s shamed body is a practice of the collective honor by which patriarchal values are respected in the way of restricting women’s sexuality only to marriage for domesticity. Her body is a repository of Irish traditional practices playing out the  Catholic  patriarchal  ethos  perpetually  adjusting  new  experiences  to  its cognitive-emotional  structures,  which  effectuate  the  correctness  of  women’s sexuality.