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Claire Keegan's masterpiece, Small Things Like These, exposes the violence of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries through the life of a middle-aged family man named Bill Furlong. This essay examines how Furlong, the protagonist, arrives an ethically -justified decision through realistic anguish. On the surface, the historical fiction novella reveals the secrets of the Magdalene Laundries through Furlong's rescue of an unmarried mother named Sarah Redmond who is imprisoned in a convent. Underneath, however, the novel interrogates the shameful mechanism of exclusion in which Irish Catholic society and the residents of New Ross use to otherize vulnerable women. After all, the novel suggests how humans should offer hospitality to the other. It also defines the meaning of small kindness in this novel by presenting two aspects of hospitality: conditional hospitality, which otherizes the vulnerable, and absolute hospitality, which is represented by small kindness.