Imagery from The Liar's Club

1."She hawked up a boogery gollop from way back in her throat, pausing every now and then to tell me she was fixing to huck it at me" (101).


-This occurs when Lecia gets mad at Mary for something she said about their grandmother and is trying to torture her. This shows that even though Lecia is somewhat more level headed, she also has some fight in her.

2."She says that she wore her black Chanel suit with Grandma's beige-and-ivory cameo, which her great-grandmother had brought form Ireland. She also wore pearl earrings, and a white pillbox hat of the type Jackie Kennedy had on when her husband was shot" (101).

-This passage shows that, even though its been awhile, Mary's mom still cares a lot about what she wears and a part of her really misses New York and the way of life she had there.



3."... I figured out for myself that she wouldn't let anybody truss the old lady on top of the car like a deer, just so we'd all get to ride out too" (102).

-This sentence just painted a funny picture in my head. The fact that Mary would even think for a second that her mom would do this is very humerous and shows a lot about how she felt about her Grandmother.

4."These kids sitting around me with their heads crooked earnestly over their giant drawing papers seemed to have forgotten that the ocean had decided for no good reason to dislodge itself on top of hundreds of people across the river in Louisiana" (103).
-The quote shows how bitter Mary was becoming, even only at age 8. She was slowly realizing that life wasn't fair, but still didnt know how to make sense of that, and it was causing her a lot of stress.




5."There'd been some kind of hurricane back-tide or oil spill, so you could smell whole schools of dead fish stinking on the beach as soon as you got out of the car" (108).


-From this I felt as though I was there and could smell the fish that she was smelling.


6."That's where the memory freezes, that instant with Daddy and that monkey gazing down either side of that smoky road to each other like it's somewhere they both have to get to" (125).

-This is another example of how observant Mary was even as a child. It was as though she could read her father's thoughts before he even thought them.


7."The memory turns to smoke right there. It floats out the door over the cape jasmine" (131).

-This quote shows that Mary struggles with what she remembers and that sometimes she remembers only parts of memories.



8."They make a weird Oz-like glow that bleeds up the whole bottom part of the sky. It's a chemical-green light the color of bread mold, rising up the night sky like a bad water stain climbing wallpaper" (138).

-This passage stood out because it was full of descriptors and was a great image. Mary does such a good job of fully explaining how things look to her and comparing them to every day things.