It was just the normal afternoon in the Maloney household just a few days ago. Mary anxiously waited on her husband's arrival back home, and when he did appear, he was in a sour mood. He drank more than usual, didn't want to eat dinner, and then suddenly informed her he needed to tell her something. After he told her, she went downstairs, got a leg of lamb, and proceeded to swing it at his head. She then put it in a pot and cooked it. After she killed him, she went about her business as normal, pretending nothing had happened. After going to the grocery store, she came back pretended to discover the body for the first time and called the police. After the police and detectives came to her house, searched the house, and found nothing, she fed them the lamb's leg, the very murder weapon they were searching for, and laughed.

In the story, her insanity is extremely evident. It all starts at the beginning of the story, when she describes the “shape of his mouth” and how she loves it. This is not normal, as most people would describe their significant other's lips, not shape of their mouth. She also describes herself as “curiously peaceful”. Why is it curious that she is peaceful? She must be alluding to the fact that she is not normally peaceful, and instead is normally anxious, or even agitated and hostile. This description seems …show more content…
She seems to have some bipolar tendencies and mood swings. At the beginning of the story, she is loving towards her husband, saying their time together was “a wonderful time of day”, and wanting to make him drinks and his dinner. She also describes loving his mouth, and she calls him darling in a endearing way. But after she hears what he wanted to tell her, she is quiet and emotionless. She begins to talk to herself, and even after she hits him and kills him, she shows no emotion or surprise, and just watches him fall and turns and walks