I Condemn Mary Moloney's 'Hullo Darling'

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1. I condemn Mary Maloney’s actions because she killed her own husband. I think she should’ve accepted it and try to start a new life. With the money, her husband was offering so she could get looked after instead of hitting him ''over the head'' with a frozen lamb leg and committing a crime. 2. Their relationship was: kind, calm, loving, trusting, faithful, patient, respectful and giving. 3. The narrator is omniscient because he never uses first-person words like I, me and my. For example "Hullo, darling" she said."Hullo" he answered. The effectiveness of the narrator's perspective is he got all sides of the story. He saw what happened to each person. 4. The irony of it was when he let her understand that they were a loving family. Then

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