To Kill Mary Doloney Analysis

In the story, Mary Maloney uses a variety of tactics to maintain her illusion of innocence. After she kills Patrick, she goes to the grocer to create an alibi. While buying grocery, she makes a prolonged conversation in a polite and friendly manner so he remembers her. Furthermore, due to her excellent ability to change personas, she creates a persona of a victim to influence the officer’s investigation before it even starts. When the police arrive, she goes and hugs Jack Noonan which causes him to have sympathy for her. Because of her persona as a victim, the detectives are exceptionally nice to her; they start to console her rather than to investigate the murder. The detectives are extremely tired and she takes their tiredness as leverage.
She offers them whiskey to keep them going. It’s not an offer of hospitality but to astray the police away from the investigation and to effects their brain and their thinking with alcohol. In conclusion she uses alibis, her ability to change personas and uses the officer’s weakness as leverage to get away with the murder.