POINT OF VIEW 3rd Person Point of View Evidence: "Lamb to the Slaughter" is written in a 3rd person, limited point of view. ... Patrick then hears her walking back from the cellar and tells her that he is going out for dinner with someone else with his back turned towards her. ... Mary, in the other room starts giggling CHARACTERS Main Characters Mary Maloney Protagonist Dynamic - Mary wildly shifts from a loving and caring woman to an unstable, unforgiving murderess. ... She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in a door, or moved slowly across the room...

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Pynchon describes her optimistic view as a "growing obsession". ... Pynchon creates understanding of the doctor's foolish idea with the analogy "that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in." To compare the unconscious mind to a room is a preposterous assumption. ... Each time Oedipa views one of the post horns it hurts her because she does not understand the meaning. ... Bringing the symbol to life and giving it the knowledge to strike at Oedipa's most sensitive areas shows the struggle she undertakes to understand them. ...

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This scene is visually impressive, with girls in glittery costumes shown as "props- in a circus, which is what the song is about. ... The way the narrative jumps from the normal court room to a court room full of dancers and show girls is effective because it shows to the audience the kind of man Billy Flynn is by viewing him clearly seeing everything as a show. ... Overall, the musical numbers such as Cell Block Tango' encourage the audience to view the women as being powerful because they are represented as unremorseful. ... In this scene of meeting Amos, he is positioned in a very ...

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