Accentric Ann Hogan Case Study

and John R., carry her to a room upstairs, secluding her from the party below. They strip her, graffiti her body with salacious comments using indelible marker, and sexually assault her while others digitally document the incursion.

In 1926, Christie’s mother died. In that same year she discovered that her husband was in love with another woman. On December 6, she suffered a mental breakdown and disappeared from her home. Her car was found abandoned in a quarry. Ten years later, she was found at a hotel in Harrogate, England, where she had been staying under the name of the woman whom her was husband was having an affair with. Two years later, she divorced Archibald Christie. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, who was a leading British archaeologist (“Agatha Christie Biography”).

The dilemmas established from the nature of motivation, compel the characters to resolve their conflicts. Ann is struggling in a mental and emotional anguish to find the importance in her life. The conflict arises in her decision to gratify her goal; the satisfaction she seeks for in life which is the love and support of her faithful husband. In addition the conflict results from Ann vs society, she feels as though she can’t connect to society because “John never talks, he doesn’t understand…maybe he’ll have Steven come again, and some other young people, too. It’s what we need, both of us, to help keep young ourselves”. Even though John’s ignorance towards his wife’s emotional needs create issues between them, Ann fails to stop herself from being attracted to Stevens appeal, she tries to impress him by changing to “another dress, hair rearranged”. Furthermore, it is true that marriage can sometime result in peoples miserable conditions. As a result of Ann’s actions she came to realization that even after cheating with Steven her guilt leads her to realize that only with John she can be emotionally fulfilled. “John was the man…with him lay all

Many people suspect that Jennie had killed her husband after a conflict or the greed for gold. However, this is very unlikely as relatives and friends claimed that the couple barely argues and there were no evident of murder. Although, if this is a murder case, the most plausible suspect would be Graham Milne, the man who left the couple just before they disappeared. Furthermore, he refused to speak with the reporters and had introduced the couple to gold prospecting. Still, there are no evident of criminality for this disappearing case.

Ann was very selfish woman who only thought of herself. This is when does not want john to go look after his father, who is old and alone. She only want john around. However her marriage is dull, and boring as john think that the best way to prove his loyalty to Ann was to work hard all day long. She ends up having sex in her matrimonial bed with the neighbor and John come to find them there. He decided to commit suicide by walking in the storm.

Proving that pathetic fallacy is a strong literary technique in enhancing the tone or mood of a story, it also within this story shows how John might not be fully committed to his partner. Not in the sense of loyalty, but how he only cares for her physical well being and does not take time to think about her mental health. Another factor of Ann’s mental health being affected is that she is in isolation, she had thought that she would be okay, as she has been a farmer's wife for seven years and being alone for a lot of it, however this time was different. Ann feels like she is being held captive in her own house, and because of the storm she is unable to leave the house. Her isolation ultimately leads to the decision to cheat on her husband, which has the repercussion of her husband killing himself in order to never have to confront her about this. The purpose of Steven coming over was to visit Ann to make sure she was alright, but one thing lead to another and they ended up in bed

Between 7:15 and 7:30 last night a person, by the name of Paul Dudden, in this residence, took his last breath behind the screen in the library as he was being brutally murdered. One thing’s for sure the murderer knew what they wanted. They wanted Paul Dudden gone. When Paul Dudden took his last look at this cruel world, the murderer looked down and smiled at their accomplishment. Unfortunately for the murderer, it is clear who this malevolent person is. He was no other that Mr. Parsons himself. After interviewing Mrs. Parsons, one of the Ellis’ car went into the driveway drove by the one and only Amy Ellis at 8:00. Now here’s the thing, why didn’t Mr. Parson see the car as well? As the car drove in, Mr. Parsons wasn’t in his house at all.

In “The Story of an Hour” we see Mrs. Louise Mallard receives news of the death of her husband. The

It is both because of John’s deep-seated loyalty to Ann and Ann’s sacrificing nature that kept them together, and brings them apart.

Immediately after he goes through with the marriage to Jesse, but he has not let go of Polly. John continues to convince the Hutchinsons the Polly is still alive, to get money from them and also because he is too afraid to tell them she has died. The way he lied however put her sister on edge and led to an investigation of Polly’s whereabouts and John eventually gets arrested for her murder. While he is in jail he tries to commit suicide, initially it’s because he wants to out of the situation and he doesn’t want to face the damage he has caused but he also uses it to plead insanity in court. He does so when the he is called up to the stand and instead of going he “trembles violently, shakes his head and refuses to get onto his feet.”(PG) John is looking for a way out, he does not want to be questioned about the murder because he had not come to terms with it nor does he want to deal with it. He is always looking for a way out, especially when he is

Queenie Valupides got into an argument with her husband, Arthur, and went off to the country club. She left the club at almost one in the morning, inviting a few of her friends over for one more drink. Queenie arrived at her house, her friends arriving ten minutes after. She met them at the door, claiming Arthur slipped and fell down the stairs while going to get another drink and that he was dead. The autopsy concluded that he was drunk and died from a head wound. Queenie’s story might seem to be true, but she is lying.

They don’t realize that the little things do matter in solving a case like this. By “worrying over trifles” (655), as Mr. Hale puts it, the women end up finding out a lot more about the murder than the men do.

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

Eventually, someone drove by and noticed she was dead, and called police immediately. When the police arrived at the scene, they identified her as the miracle woman who had been alive for over two hundred years. News went around the world as she was a miracle woman, there was never anybody like her. She was looked up to by many, for she was wise because of all her knowledge from being around for two hundred and forty six years. People all around came to her funeral. She was fianlly laid to rest in her hometown of

On Friday March 15, 1895, Bridget Cleary was incinerated by her husband, Michael Cleary, in the middle of a cold night n Ireland. Cleary had been such for several days, as she suffered from “nervous excitement and slight bronchitis,” which a local physician in the local community. Michael Cleary was born in Ballyvadlea, Ireland and became a young cooper. He believed that his seamstress wife Bridget, who was stricken with a malady, had been kidnapped by fairies. Thus, when he set Bridget’s body afire, he did not think that he was actually burning his wife’s body but rather that of a changeling of a fairy that had taken possession of her. Using the resources and methodologies of cultural anthropology, cultural history, and folklore studies, Angela Bourke meticulously and deftly researched the sensationalized narrative about the incineration of Bridget Cleary, a famous and spectacular event that is still poignantly remembered in the modern day as a story about shifting gender mores, domestic violence, gender dynamics and power relations, and class within the context