Evidence regarding this claim can be found in the scene in which she has just man slaughtered her husband, Patrick, and is sitting in front of the mirror practicing her expressions to appear innocent. "That was better. Both the smile and the voice were coming out better now. She rehearsed it several times more. Then she ran downstairs, took her coat, went out the back door, down the garden, into the street" (Dahl 4). Here, Mary demonstrates to us that she will do anything to get away with murder when she prepares to act innocent in front of Sam, as well as the lengths she will go to come up with a solid alibi. A second piece of evidence supporting that Mary's insanity can be found in the scene in which Mary is attempting to convince the police officers to eat the lamb leg, which is the murder weapon. "'Well,' she said. 'Here you all are, and good friends of dear Patrick's too, and helping to catch the man who killed him. You must be terrible hungry by now because it's long past your
Evidence regarding this claim can be found in the scene in which she has just man slaughtered her husband, Patrick, and is sitting in front of the mirror practicing her expressions to appear innocent. "That was better. Both the smile and the voice were coming out better now. She rehearsed it several times more. Then she ran downstairs, took her coat, went out the back door, down the garden, into the street" (Dahl 4). Here, Mary demonstrates to us that she will do anything to get away with murder when she prepares to act innocent in front of Sam, as well as the lengths she will go to come up with a solid alibi. A second piece of evidence supporting that Mary's insanity can be found in the scene in which Mary is attempting to convince the police officers to eat the lamb leg, which is the murder weapon. "'Well,' she said. 'Here you all are, and good friends of dear Patrick's too, and helping to catch the man who killed him. You must be terrible hungry by now because it's long past your