Images from the Liars Club

1. "I was a vulture for this type of story."(98) Mary obviously doesn't mean that she turned into a bird, but that she really enjoyed hearing horror stories about people getting bit and needing rabies shots. I am starting to question if Mary feels bad for anyone or thing.

2. "a sound like a crazy cello player sawing the same note over and over, or like a zillion bees coming up from the ground."(103) This humming noise could be guilt that Mary feels about her grandmother. I think it represents her trying to block out bad memories.

3. "The head's a translucent globe about the size of a softball.." This is describing the man-of-war that Daddy takes Mary and Lecia to see. Foreshadowing into the future by bringing this up?

4. "it was the color of the moon that's starting up." Mary cannot look at her sister's face because of the color described. I think this is guilt showing of Mary.

5. "Then I walked as slowly and miserably as any mule though any cotton row in order to assemble that drink."(126) This shows how much Mary disliked her Mother's drinking. Every night Mary tried to play safety.

6. "Then the music surges a little, like a wave rising up, and she fades away from us, back into her Manhattan taxi outside the Metropolitan again."(129) Mary's mother obviously doesn't go to Manhattan, but she is lost in her drinking.

7. "Then she would bawl like a sick cat, hanging her head in her hands,..."(132) Mary's mother was in a drunken state and letting the music carry her to her feelings. She seems to be trying to remember her past life.

8. "I can almost feel the tires click back in between the yellow lines."(139) This is Mary trying to feel security after a fight.

Here's a video for kicks and I kinda have to...

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