Martha and Abby are 2 elderly ladies who live in NYC with their nephew, Mortimer. Jonathon, their other nephew, comes along and tries to move in to set up an office for his partners plastic surgery business. In Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesserling shows how Martha and Abby seem to be normal, stereotypical, old ladies; except, when the truth is revealed, they turn out to be mass murderer, which is why one should never judge a book by its cover. Martha and Abby are portrayed as stereotypical old ladies that could never hurt anyone, but as the story goes on, they are actually lawbreakers. The ladies nephew, Mortimer, is shocked when he finds out that all the bodies in the cellar were from his Aunts and says to them, “You don't do things like
