The New Life of Mary Essay

Mary Cassatt was a sister to four. She had three older brothers whose names were Alexander, Gardner, and Robert, who went by Robbie and who she was the closest to. Her sister’s name was Lydia. Mary’s father was Robert Cassatt, a successful businessman, and was married to Mary’s mother Katherine. Unlike Robert’s father Denis, Robert was very lucky and since he was very successful as a banker and a stockbroker, he made an excellent living for his family. This allowed them to not only move a lot, but also travel the world. Eventually, Robert moved his family to Europe. They settled in Paris, France, and when they got there, Mary saw that there was plenty of things and activities to do. Paris was very different from

Mary had been interviewed to the point where she shut down and couldn’t answer anymore questions. She sat in silence when detectives would investigate her, unable to tell them what happened. Mary eventually fell guilty and started her journey to baby jail where she began a sentencing. The other juvenile delinquents and CO’s, or guards, of baby jail mistreated Mary because of the accusations people made. Mary’s back story consisted of murdering a baby and now that’s how people characterized and treated her, like a murderer.

She then learned that it was because he was a premature baby, and they normally die soon after birth, so for everyday of his whole life he had the mindset that he would die. This described why his room was completely dark, not just because he couldn’t be exposed but because darkness represents death. Also he wore a white gown, which represents innocence which he his because he couldn’t help his condition. Thanks to Mary believing that he didn’t belong there, she got him out of his room and took him to the garden where he actually belonged because that was where his mother was. But, the stripping of the covered up windows really hit home for Colin.

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As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

She made her into the village and through the square to set up her market stall of curiosities, her display is a large array of fruit or flowers in the forest, sometimes she would find owl pellets and would sometimes dissect them to see what the owls have been eating. Often, she would display books that she has written one book was titled ‘The Modern Medicines’. One of the villagers picked it up and attempted to read it and her face was puzzled, she remembered them looking at her and saying to her ‘What’s all these here squiggles on this pa’er Mary?’ She placed it down and walked to the vegetable stall.

Mary begins the story as a doting housewife going through her daily routine with her husband. She is content to sit in his company silently until he begins a conversation. Everything is going as usual until he goes “ slowly to get himself another drink” while telling Mary to “sit down” (Dahl 1). This shocks Mary as she is used to getting things for him. After downing his second drink, her husband coldly informs her that he is leaving her and the child. This brutal news prompts the first change in Mary, from loving wife to emotionless and detached from everything.

Mary has one motive for murdering her husband. The motive is that she couldn’t accept the fact that her husband was leaving her. He says, “ ‘This is going to be a bit of a shock to you, I 'm afraid,’ he said. ‘But I 've thought about it a good deal and I 've decided the only thing to do is tell you right away. I hope you won 't blame me too much...So there it is,’ he added. ‘And I know it 's kind of a bad time to be telling you, bet there simply wasn 't any other way. Of course I 'll give you money and see you 're looked after. But there needn 't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn 't be very good for my job.’ " Although he didn’t say the exact words the reader can infer this when he states “… i’ll give you money and see you 're looked after. But there needn 't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn 't be very good for my job…” Some readers might disagree with her for killing her husband because he was leaving her, but she was truly in love with him

Like Joy, Mary went to university to help her family’s situation and had Tony and Wes at a young age. Her mother, Alma died when she was 16, shortly after Mary had Tony, due to her kidney failure transplant. Mary was married to Bernard, an alcoholic, and ended up leaving him. About eight months after they had Wes, Bernard was banging on their front door late at night. On page 24 it says, “Bernard continued to bang and scream. He stood the other side of the door in faded jeans and plain white T-shirt, his beard scruffy and his eyes bloodshot.” He was trying to see his son, but Mary just peered at him, disgusted. Finally, he left their front door, and it was the last time he tried to see his son. Mary was a hardworking, and independent mother who took care of two children by

There’s plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer, and you can have it right here and not even have to move out of the chair’’’ (2). Mary only ever want to please Patrick. She made sure everything was perfect for him and to never do anything wrong. She could not think of anything she had done to deserve such news. She immediately rejected the news and decided to pretend as if it never happened. Patrick was behaving so cruel to her while she was being nothing but nice to him. She even continued to make him dinner and he yelled at her saying not to because he is going out. This angered Mary resulting her to hit him with the leg of lamb and kill him. This shows that Mary is a sympathetic character because she was always compliant to Patrick. He had no right to disrespect her as he did.

Mary’s mother began to disguise Mary as a boy after the death of her older brother. This was done to continue to receive financial support from his paternal grandmother. The grandmother was apparently fooled, and Read and her mother lived on the inheritance into her teenage years. Still dressed as a boy Read then found work as a foot-boy, and later found employment on a ship. Read, in a male disguise, proved herself through battle, but fell in love with a soldier.

Throughout the entire story, Mary is a very interesting character. She faces many issues in dealing with her husband’s news that he is leaving her. She reacts based on her instincts and kills her husband and this shows her cold heartedness. In the end she has to create an alibi to cover up her devious crime in which she has to manipulate the police into eating the evidence. Mary is a very unique complex character and she has, through her actions conducted a devious crime in which she will be proven innocent. Through the use of Many Maloney’s character, as well as irony and suspense, the author was able to maintained the interest of the reader throughout the entire short story.

By the novel, Mary discusses several issues related to relationships which terrorize aspects of her personal life, including birth and childhood, the death of her mother, her miscarriage and new child and her coming across with the events which occurred in the summer of 1816 (see notes).

She finds a boy named Colin living in a hidden bedroom. She soon discovers that they are cousins, Colin being the son of Mr and Mrs Craven, and that he suffers from an unspecified spinal problem. Mary visits him every day that week, distracting him from his troubles with stories of the moor, Dickon and his animals, and the secret garden. Mary finally confides that she has access to the secret garden, and Colin asks to see it. Colin is put into his wheelchair and brought outside into the secret garden.

“I was angry. I never cried. I didn’t know how to cry.” This how Mary felt the night he parents died. She was angry at them for not caring about her, she was upset for the same reason, but she locked up all her feelings, hid them from anything and everything.