As the story begins Mary is quite attached to her lover. Throughout the story you can see her descent to madness, and this leads to the eventual murder of her husband. There are many reasons for her drastic change in mood starting with him talking to her about their future.
From the moment the story starts it is easy to say she's clearly over attached to him. As Dahl explains “She loved the warmth that came out of him when they were alone together. She loved the shape of his mouth, and she especially liked the way he didn't complain about being tired”(1), although this could just be justified by loneliness, it also shows that Mary was fond of her husband. She also shows her overwhelming love for him with her need to provide everything he wants or needs for him. Even though she offers all these things she still gets brushed off by her monotone husband. She is eventually sat down and the news is broke that some event is going to seperate them, and at first
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This shows the transition from her caring house wife to protective mom. She brainstorms a solution to her problem and starts to carry out her plan. She starts to roast the lamb leg used to brutally murder her husband and leaves for the store. While at the store she talks to their family friend and grocer Sam. This event demonstrates mary’s manipulative behaviors only further developed later on. She returns home and calls the police claiming a murder had taken place, and she had covered all her tracks. While this whole thing was playing out Mary was calm and collected through the whole thing, and she acts this way because she is aware its her only way to solve the problem previously created. When the police arrive she puts on a guise of innocence as written by Dahl “She cried to him. "Quick! Come quickly! Patrick's dead’”(3), only further showing her manipulative