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How the Setting Affect Mary Maloney

20266 — 2013-11-14 18:31:46 UTC

The setting affects Mary because in the 1950’s woman were glorified servants. They were taught that their job was to serve their husband and do nothing but care for them. A woman's identity was as a servant. Mary was home alone all day. The only person she had in her life regularly was her husband, she became attached to him. She lived to serve him. It was her identity, so when her husband decided to leave her she didn’t know what to do with herself. He was her identity and she was losing him, and because of this she went crazy.

The Lamb Leg

20266 — 2013-11-14 18:45:44 UTC

The Lamb leg is literally a frozen leg of lamb Mary Maloney Killed her husband with. It's the murder weapon. Figuratively the lamb leg represents much more. When we think of a lamb we think of innocence, we think of the child's nursery rhyme. We don't think of a lamb leg as something capable of murdering a human being. Its a picture of innocence, but in this story its a murder weapon. This symbol connects to the major theme because the theme of this story is "You can't judge a book by it's cover." Like the theme you cannot judge this symbol by how it appears.

You Can't Judge a Book by it's Cover

20266 — 2013-11-14 18:54:49 UTC

Mary Maloney Was a house wife in the 1950's. She was pregnant with her husbands baby and she loved her husband dearly. Mary Maloney cleaned and cooked, she was the typical woman in the 1950's. No one would ever suspect her of murder. She was innocent. Just a woman not capable of murder. Or that's what was believed. The detectives just looked at her as a woman who had just lost her husband. She was last on there list of suspects, that's why the theme of the story is "You Can't Judge a Book by it's Cover."

Topic Sentences

20266 — 2013-12-05 19:47:48 UTC

A. Mary is insane. She may have some signs of being a criminal master mind, but you can't be completely sane if you kill someone and then laugh about it. It's not possible.

C. The moment when Mary's husband started drinking the second glass of whiskey. We knew something was wrong. It wasn't normal for her husband to have more than one glass.

E. Symbolism: The author develops meaning with symbolism because like the leg of lamb, everything in a story has meaning. The glass of whiskey represants courage.