Mary not only believed killing her husband was the easy way out the mess the husband had put her through but making sure she got away to secure her and her baby safety avoiding jail time this makes readers questions her true nature. “Her deliberate behavior to cover her guilt is explainable as the natural instincts for women trying to protect her unborn child” (Piedmont 2002). “One does not even have to be a feminist to succumb to the urge to defend Mary on just such suppositional grounds” (Bertonneau 1916). Mary find herself in extraordinary circumstances that demand certain actions. However, “Mary’s actions immediately after the murder are a chilling mirror image of her behavior in the first scene of the story” (Piedmont 2002). Dahl makes