Question

1. DESCRIBE MARY MALONEY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY. WHAT KIND OF WIFE DOES SHE APPEAR TO BE?

2. HOW IS HER BEHAVIOR DIFFERENT ON THIS DAY?
3. HOW CAN YOU TELL THAT PATRICK MALONEY IS PREOCCUPIED?
4. WHAT NEWS DOES PATRICK HAVE FOR MARY?
5. WHAT CLUES DOES THE AUTHOR GIVE ABOUT HOW MARY FEELS AS SHE HEARS THE NEWS?
6. WAY DOES MARY GO AHEAD WITH PLANS FOR SUPPER AFTER ALL?
7. WHAT WAS MARY'S FIRST CONCERN AS SHE BUILDS HER ALABI?
8. WHAT EXAMPLE OF SITUATIONAL IRONY CAN BE FOUND IN THIS STORY?
9. WHAT EXAMPLE OF DRAMATIC IRONY CAN BE FOUND IN THIS STORY?
10. WHY IS MARY LAUGHING AT THE END OF THE STORY?

Answer 1

1. She appears to be a very loving wife who cares about her husband

2. She seemed very sweet at the beginning and then turned into a murderer in the end

3. because it literaly said in the story that his occupation is a cop because he knew the cops and detectives when they came over to help mary

4. That he was going to divorce her

5. The author portrayed her feelings when she hears the news as couldn't believe it and didn't want to believe it.

6. Because she needed to create an alabi

7. is if they found out and she got the death sentence would they kill her baby also

8. an example of situaltional irony is when Mary killed her husband because she seemed so sweet and loving and she was even pregnant with their child that we would not of expected her to murder her husband

9. an example of dramatic irony is at the end of the story when the cops and detectives were eating the leg of the lamb (aka the murder weapon) one of them said I think the weapon is right under there noses which it actually was but only mary and the audience new that

10. same answer on number 9.

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