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Our First Impressions Of Mary Maloney
From our first read our first impression of Mary Maloney is she is a kind and caring housewife. though she is kind and caring, her role acts more of a clingy and overbearing housewife. her day today purpose is to be around the house wait for Patrick to get home, and sewing. Many can agree this is an unrealistic interpretation of a woman’s day-to-day activities, no woman sits around waiting for their husbands; yet she is putting on marginalize role where that’s all she does. In addition she is also put in an objectified position, she cleans she keeps up her youth while being 6 months pregnant. even being pregnant she is expected to do these tasks without help from anyone without this structure Mary has no purpose the reader is not told anything

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