Character Analysis Of Lawrence's 'Love That Kills'
1. The first similarity between the characters was the fact that Betsy and Mary had been waiting for their partners to come back to them. a) return of Maurice from Australia
b) Patrick’s return from work
2. The second aspect in common between the characters was that they killed their partners with a strange object.
a) a big lamp
b) a frozen leg of lamb
3. Finally, as a third aspect in common, they both tried to get rid of the evidence that could compromise them.
a) Betsy’s cleanse of the room
b) Mary destroy of evidence
Love That Kills
The first similarity between the characters was the fact that Betsy and Mary had been longing for their partners to come back to them. Betsy had been waiting the return of her partner, Maurice. Since …show more content…
In Betsy’s case, after killing her former partner, she fetched water in a bucked, detergent, a sponge and cleaned everything up; the floor, the carpet and the lamp. Then she even took a bath and tidied herself but, she realized that Maurice’s body was still in the crime scene, compromising her. Quickly, she decided to put him into a silver-coloured trunk which was five feet long, three feet high, two feet wide, and its lid seemed hermetically sealing; the body fitted there and the moving-man that were going to her department wouldn’t see it and report the murder. In Mary’s case, as she had killed Patrick with a leg of lamb, she decided to offer it to the police men that were working at her home for her husband’s crime. She told Sergeant Noonan that as she had already prepared dinner but she could not have a bite, he and his men should eat it up. Besides, she said that it would have been Patrick’s desire because they were all good friends and they had treated her so kindly. Both Betsy and Mary were able to get rid of the evidence that compromised them; Betsy made Maurice’s body disappeared and Mary the leg of lamb.
All in all, we can say that Betsy from A Glowing Future and Mary Maloney from Lamb to the Slaughter were under similar circumstances when it comes to their partners’ crimes. Both waited for their partners some time; both killed their partners making use of a strange object; and, after the murders, they both tried to get rid of the evidence that compromised them following the instinct of
b) Patrick’s return from work
2. The second aspect in common between the characters was that they killed their partners with a strange object.
a) a big lamp
b) a frozen leg of lamb
3. Finally, as a third aspect in common, they both tried to get rid of the evidence that could compromise them.
a) Betsy’s cleanse of the room
b) Mary destroy of evidence
Love That Kills
The first similarity between the characters was the fact that Betsy and Mary had been longing for their partners to come back to them. Betsy had been waiting the return of her partner, Maurice. Since …show more content…
In Betsy’s case, after killing her former partner, she fetched water in a bucked, detergent, a sponge and cleaned everything up; the floor, the carpet and the lamp. Then she even took a bath and tidied herself but, she realized that Maurice’s body was still in the crime scene, compromising her. Quickly, she decided to put him into a silver-coloured trunk which was five feet long, three feet high, two feet wide, and its lid seemed hermetically sealing; the body fitted there and the moving-man that were going to her department wouldn’t see it and report the murder. In Mary’s case, as she had killed Patrick with a leg of lamb, she decided to offer it to the police men that were working at her home for her husband’s crime. She told Sergeant Noonan that as she had already prepared dinner but she could not have a bite, he and his men should eat it up. Besides, she said that it would have been Patrick’s desire because they were all good friends and they had treated her so kindly. Both Betsy and Mary were able to get rid of the evidence that compromised them; Betsy made Maurice’s body disappeared and Mary the leg of lamb.
All in all, we can say that Betsy from A Glowing Future and Mary Maloney from Lamb to the Slaughter were under similar circumstances when it comes to their partners’ crimes. Both waited for their partners some time; both killed their partners making use of a strange object; and, after the murders, they both tried to get rid of the evidence that compromised them following the instinct of