Mavis Albright was one of the first of the women to go the Convent. Her car had broken down and she needed gas. She ended up at the Convent were Connie help her. In the beginning she was a very weak, isolated and abused woman. She struggles in her marriage and with her children. We learn that she accidently killed her twins because she went into a store and left her children in a hot car with the windows up and her doors are locked. After the twins die we see her slip in to a depression and becomes somewhat deranged. At one point she thinks that her children are trying to kill her: “Sal had Frank’s old shaving razer unfolded by her plate and asked…eliciting peals of laughter from Sal” (24). This highlights the fact that Mavis cannot separate