Mary Maloney Case Study

Mary Maloney is a sympathetic character because she covered up Patrick’s death to protect her baby. All of the tricking and deceiving she did was to save her unborn child from what could have happened as a result of her actions. She did not know what the laws were for murdered with unborn babies and she did not want to find out. Dahl states, “ What were the laws about murderers with unborn children? Did they kill both-mother and child? Or did they wait until the tenth month? Mary Maloney didn’t know. And she certainly wasn’t prepared to take a chance” (3). Mary’s number one concern was for her baby. She did not want

At the beginning of the story, Mary Maloney loves and adores her husband, this does not last very long. Dahl uses simple but strong sentences to portray the killing of Patrick Maloney “At the point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.” This illustrates Mrs. Maloney walking without any hesitation, killing her beloved husband and this also exemplifies the ultimate transformation of Mrs. Maloney from her calm behavior to being over dramatic. Another detail that this phrase demonstrates is that Patrick is so focused in his thoughts that he doesn’t sense his wife walking up towards him. Dahl reveals this unexpected transformation of Mary Maloney through her actions and thoughts. Another phrase that exemplifies Mrs. Maloney’s change in character is when she thinks to herself, after killing Patrick, “‘All right,’ she told herself. ‘So I’ve killed him.’” This illustrates Mrs. Maloney’s impeccable life, or what she conceives to be her life is demolished. At this point of the story, Dahl uses direct and indirect sentences to develop the protagonist and to show the complete transformation of Mrs. Maloney and brings her to

After the horrible news Patrick gave Mary, in shock, all of her anger and confusion led to her sudden

He made the confirmation of Mrs. Maloney’s presence in the store. He would describe her as “Cheerful” and “Normal” and didn’t see any possible way that she could’ve committed such an act.

The person that survive Osteoporosis is Mary Splady she had her bone density scan and found out she had Osteoporosis her doctor suggest Fosamax. Mary had to stop drinking milk for every meal and start becoming a vegetarian she would eat pizza with cheese and eat a baked potato with sour cream and butter she would she was eating Osteoporosis prevented diet. Mary also began taking vitamins and other supplements because her friends and family was worried that she wasn’t eating meat. After taking Fosamax Mary began learning about her doctor after learning about her doctor she started eating low fat and low sodium. In 2008 she was 57 years old and she had another scan and her bones

“Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of is head.” First she killed her husband in their house, pregnant I think with his son. . Second she killed a person and that’s not right I think everybody knows that Family is every important part of our life. By killing someone you are making the other person’s life more

Ever since the beginning of time we have always heard stories about men and their acts in society, but now over the past century that has been changing. Women have always been forced into the role of being a house wife set to raise children, clean, and cook. They have struggled to become more then what they are told to be, and now given the changes in society they have a chance. Although recently many women are taking this change to far.

Most people, rich or poor, have dreams that they want to accomplish in their lifetime, some want to be doctors or lawyers while others want to be able to provide for their family. These people cannot accomplish their dreams by sitting on a couch eating potato chips, they have to get up and get working. Mary Lyon is one of many people who worked long and hard to accomplish her dreams which was to provide more opportunities for women in advanced education. Even though she did not have the most the most stable childhood or the best upbringing she kept true to her standards and reached her goal. It can sometimes be surprising, the amount of work that Ms. Lyon had put into her work for women’s educations.

To start off, it can be clearly seen from the short story that Mary Maloney is guilty. She makes a conscious effort to make sure she reacts as if she has not committed this crime in the text “Lamb to Slaughter” she says, “If she finds anything unusual or terrible when she got home, then it would be a shock and she would have to react with grief and horror.”(Dahl 383) By her stating this it shows that she knows she is guilty and that she killed her husband. The main reason I chose this quote was that it shows that she knows what she is talking about and that she has to act like this otherwise she will be caught and

In the story "lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney the story's protagonist, was identified as a dynamic character. In the beginning of the short story Mrs. Maloney seemed nice and caring, as the story goes on Mrs. Maloney becomes a complex character.

That your petitioners like all men according to Locke, are entitled to property and the protection of their property rights through civil government. That no harm comes to another in life, health, liberty, processions (Oufutt,102). That God gave the world the Earth to cultivate and make their own but not to have others bare the fruit of another’s hard labor.

The peaceful, happy tone in the beginning quickly changes as Mary is told something no women would ever want to hear. Patrick had some unpleasant news to tell Mary and she didn’t know what was to come, so she tried making him dinner to please him. He had Mary stop attempting to make him dinner so she could listen to him. Although it didn’t mention in the story what he told her, it can be inferred that he told her that he cheated on her or that he wants a divorce. She watched him with “horror” as she was processing what he had said. She tried to imagine as if she didn’t hear him so it wouldn’t become her reality. The only person she ever loved and wanted to please more than anything betrayed and backstabbed her.

-Working with Mary, I feel that one barrier that she is facing in regards to her expressing/accepting her sexual orientation and gender identity is fear of being rejected and shamed by her family. Evidence suggests that for LGBTQ young adults, a heightened level of

Patrick decides to leave Mary and she believes that she should just go ahead and cook supper. After grabbing the leg of lamb from the freezer she returns and makes a hasty decision as “she saw him standing over by the window with his back to her,” she hit him with the lamb leg and” the violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning,” shook her from her shock (Dahl 4). When committing a murder the worst place to do so is your own house, that was a bad decision on Mary’s part. Patricks back was facing Mary so it is as if he had already left her leaving her to let love take the lead. The leg was the perfect club shaped weapon she needed to smack him dead. With the weapon of choice there is only one logical way to get rid of it, “She carried the meat into the kitchen, placed it in a pan, turned the oven on high, and shoved it inside,” (Dahl 5). Patrick's love for another women got him struck with the lamb leg which will not leave for a messy cleanup. Cooking the leg was a good decision for Mary trying to get rid of it. Being the wife of a detective she knew the range of punishments she could receive. When making illegal decisions we need an alibi to get out of it so “she ran downstairs, took her coat, went out the back door, down the garden, into the street,” and “the lights were still on in the grocery store,” (Dahl

Mary McDonald drinks alcohol everyday on last Friday night Had company in yard smoking illegal drugs weed and saleing opoids drugs Mary McDonald allows her male friends to smoke and get drunk off liquior and pills and smoke weed in front of the girls. Mary McDonald needs to be drug tested not sure what opioid drug she is misusing. The daughter Brandy needs to be investigated about mother environment of illegal drug