What Are Mrs Doloney A Dynamic Character
Dahl introduces Mrs.Maloney as calm and collected housewife in the beginning of the story. “Mrs.Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work. Now and again she glanced at the clock but, but without anxiety”(Dahl 2). She gives us the impression that everything is going smoothly in her life and that no problems are being introduced. Later on in the story she changes radically from calm and loving and cooking dinner for her husband to violent and emotionally disturbed.Throughout the story Dahl shows that shes a dynamic character by all the changes she goes through.
When her husband comes home and starts treating her coldly, she starts to get alarmed. “Sit down,” he said. “just for a second sit down.” it wasn’t until then that …show more content…
“She went downstairs to the freezer and and took hold of the first object she found”(Dahl 23). She took the leg of lamb she was going to prepare for her husband and hit him in the back of the head with it. after a few seconds, she realized what she had done and came into her senses.”She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a few minutes, looking at the body, still holding the piece of meat tightly with both hands”(Dahl 28). When we really start to see a mental shift happens to her is when she accepts that she’s killed her …show more content…
Right after the murder of her husband, she rushes upstairs. “Then she washed her hands, ran upstairs, sat down in front of the mirror, fixed her makeup, and tried to smile”(Dahl 31). Right now, Mrs. Maloney goes from accepting her husband’s death to planning how to hide it. She plans out how to speak to the cashier at the store and plans to come home completely oblivious to his death. When she comes back from the grocery store, she didn’t need to act surprised or hurt, everything was natural. “All the old love for him came back to her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and began to cry hard”(Dahl 46). She called the police and after they were at her home for a while she offers them dinner, and she acts hurt and pained. When the detectives say “The evidence must be right under our noses”, Mrs.Maloney is in the other room listening, and
When her husband comes home and starts treating her coldly, she starts to get alarmed. “Sit down,” he said. “just for a second sit down.” it wasn’t until then that …show more content…
“She went downstairs to the freezer and and took hold of the first object she found”(Dahl 23). She took the leg of lamb she was going to prepare for her husband and hit him in the back of the head with it. after a few seconds, she realized what she had done and came into her senses.”She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a few minutes, looking at the body, still holding the piece of meat tightly with both hands”(Dahl 28). When we really start to see a mental shift happens to her is when she accepts that she’s killed her …show more content…
Right after the murder of her husband, she rushes upstairs. “Then she washed her hands, ran upstairs, sat down in front of the mirror, fixed her makeup, and tried to smile”(Dahl 31). Right now, Mrs. Maloney goes from accepting her husband’s death to planning how to hide it. She plans out how to speak to the cashier at the store and plans to come home completely oblivious to his death. When she comes back from the grocery store, she didn’t need to act surprised or hurt, everything was natural. “All the old love for him came back to her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and began to cry hard”(Dahl 46). She called the police and after they were at her home for a while she offers them dinner, and she acts hurt and pained. When the detectives say “The evidence must be right under our noses”, Mrs.Maloney is in the other room listening, and