Madeline Holman
Block 6
Lamb to the Slaughter
Write Long Character
Not everything will turn out as it appears. In the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter” the main character, Mary Maloney seems sweet, and innocent. “Her mouth and her eyes, with their new calm look, seemed larger and darker than before.” (page 1) This depicts that she seems peaceful, a perfect housewife. Mary waits for her husband to arrive home at the same time everyday, she has a routine that one can only guess has been perfected over several years. She seems to be overly dependent on her husband, and waits on him hand and foot from the second he arrives every day. “She took his coat and hung it up. Then she made drinks,”(page 1.) “...Anything you want…” Mary Maloney said …show more content…
When she is told that he is going to divorce her. It is the moment when she breaks down, she walks down to the cellar with every intention of making dinner, until she reaches the kitchen again, and kills Patrick Maloney. ”Her first instinct was to not believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she’d imagined the whole thing. Perhaps, if she acted as though she had not heard him, she would find out that none of it had ever happened…’I’ll fix some supper.’ she whispered… At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without andy pause, she swung the big fromen left of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as shou could on the back of his head.”(page. 2) In her mind it would be far better to have a dead husband than none at all. In the end we meet the psychotic version of Mary Maloney, she has recently killed her husband, and goes out to the grocery store to buy food for “his dinner”, she reaches home and calls the police. A few hours after the death of her husband she feeds the murder weapon to the detectives on her husbands case, all the while they are talking about how the murder weapon is probably right under their noses. Mary Maloney laughs at the irony of their comment because the murder weapon is literally right under their noses. “Now and again she glanced at the clock, but without
Block 6
Lamb to the Slaughter
Write Long Character
Not everything will turn out as it appears. In the beginning of “Lamb to the Slaughter” the main character, Mary Maloney seems sweet, and innocent. “Her mouth and her eyes, with their new calm look, seemed larger and darker than before.” (page 1) This depicts that she seems peaceful, a perfect housewife. Mary waits for her husband to arrive home at the same time everyday, she has a routine that one can only guess has been perfected over several years. She seems to be overly dependent on her husband, and waits on him hand and foot from the second he arrives every day. “She took his coat and hung it up. Then she made drinks,”(page 1.) “...Anything you want…” Mary Maloney said …show more content…
When she is told that he is going to divorce her. It is the moment when she breaks down, she walks down to the cellar with every intention of making dinner, until she reaches the kitchen again, and kills Patrick Maloney. ”Her first instinct was to not believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she’d imagined the whole thing. Perhaps, if she acted as though she had not heard him, she would find out that none of it had ever happened…’I’ll fix some supper.’ she whispered… At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without andy pause, she swung the big fromen left of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as shou could on the back of his head.”(page. 2) In her mind it would be far better to have a dead husband than none at all. In the end we meet the psychotic version of Mary Maloney, she has recently killed her husband, and goes out to the grocery store to buy food for “his dinner”, she reaches home and calls the police. A few hours after the death of her husband she feeds the murder weapon to the detectives on her husbands case, all the while they are talking about how the murder weapon is probably right under their noses. Mary Maloney laughs at the irony of their comment because the murder weapon is literally right under their noses. “Now and again she glanced at the clock, but without