Is Mrs. Maloney Insane or Not?
Mrs. Maloney is absolutely insane. I mean, who would hit their husband over their head with a frozen chunk of meat. Some people may think that she was calculating and smart in covering it up but she was messy and uncareful like an insane person. I do understand how she would be devastated after her husband, who she adored, suddenly says he’s leaving her and the baby because his job is more important than them but even if he did that he doesn’t deserve to die. Instead of killing him she could have rationally decided to either beg him to stay with her, let him leave if he didn’t want to take care of her, or just wait until he gets back from his job but she didn’t do any of those. At first she didn’t even believe it and pretended she didn’t hear it and went about regularly making supper. After she killed him, she decided to make this fake plan to fool the officers and the store clerk by practicing what she would say to them in the mirror until even she believed it! She then went to the store and bought peas and cheesecake like nothing happened. When she came back from the grocery store to find her husband dead on the ground she cried! She didn’t cry because she felt guilty for what she did; she cried because she realized that her husband was dead. Any reasonable person would know that if you murdered someone then you would hang for it. (at least back then)She didn’t care that she would die; nothing mattered to her because she was insane. She didn’t consider that they would kill her baby. If she was a sane caring mother then she wouldn’t do that to her baby. And above all, she purposely made the police officers drunk and then fed them the leg of lamb, to hide the evidence. Then she laughed evilly like as if murdering people was funny! That is why Mrs. Maloney is completely insane.
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