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Mary Alice Young (formerly Angela Forrest) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Brenda Strong who narrates the series from beyond the grave. The narration provided by Mary Alice is essential to the tale of Wisteria Lane, as the show revolves around her sharing the secrets of her friends and neighbours. She is the matriarch of Wisteria Lane and is the most important character to the show's development.
Mary Alice is the most mysterious of the housewives because only bits and pieces of her story are known. A loving, doting wife and mother who was generous to her family and neighbours, she was the last person any of them expected to shoot herself in the head. She was born on November 18, 1965 and died on September 26, 2004.
In death, Mary Alice sees things she would not have seen in life: her friends' vulnerabilities, lies and secrets. She doesn't judge them so much as love them more because of their foibles, pitying them for the ways they manipulate and hurt those they care about most.
After finding a blackmail note in Mary Alice's clothes, the women make a series of discoveries: She was being treated by Dr. Goldfine; she once went by another name, Angela; and she may have had something to do with a baby that disappeared. When Felicia Tilman comes to town and realizes she knew Mary Alice by her former identity, it's only a matter of time before the women learn just how much Mary Alice may have been hiding.
In the first season's finale, the mystery of Mary Alice's death is revealed. Years ago, Mary Alice (whose real name is Angela) couldn't conceive. She bought a baby illegally from a heroin addict, Dierdre, and moved to Wisteria Lane with her husband and the new baby to start a new life. The Young family's beautiful, happy life on Wisteria Lane was nearly destroyed when the woman returned, seemingly sober, wanting her baby back. After a verbal fight, as the woman went to reclaim her baby, Mary Alice stabbed her, killing her, as the child, originally named Dana and renamed Zach, watched. Mary Alice and Paul chopped up the body and buried it under their pool. Zack's father turned out to be Mike Delfino. Years later, when Mrs. Huber discovered Mary Alice's secret via her sister, Felicia, who worked with "Angela," she blackmailed Mary Alice. In desperation, Mary Alice committed suicide.
Mary Alice was the first housewife to move to Wisteria Lane, more than twenty years before the show's initial setting (the day Mary Alice shot herself in the head, killing herself) . While Mary Alice Young is dead, she recalls with precision the first time she met each of the women she grew to love. She met Susan Mayer fourteen years before her "expiration"; when Susan (a gleeful champ) got stuck in her moving truck. Mary saved her from the truck and that was the beginning of their friendship. Mary met Bree Van de Kamp (now Bree Hodge) under different circumstances. She met her when she confronted Mary Alice about a garden frog, which resulted in an unwelcoming first impression for the Van de Kamp family.
In the second season finale, Mary Alice appeared in the episodes in various flash backs, describing her meeting with all the major housewives, the first character she met was Susan. Mary Alice rescued Susan after she locked herself in her moving van. The second character she encountered was Bree, who arrived at the Youngs house, with Andrew and Rex in tow, she was there to make Andrew apologise for stealing a garden ornamental frog. She met Lynette several years later, Lynette and Tom were arguing over how Lynette was pregnant with twins, and that it is completely ok for Lynette to punish Tom for neglecting to tell her that his family had eight sets of twins over three generations. Gabrielle was the final housewives to be greeted by the group, she was dressed in her underwear, after just having sex with Carlos, when Mary Alice, Susan, Lynette and Bree walked in.
Mary Alice was also seen in a flashback on the second episode of the fourth season called Smiles of a Summer Night in a flashback of Susan’s about the day on which Katherine Mayfair abrubtly left Wisteria Lane, former neighbor Mary Alice Young and Susan walk up to Katherine’s house questioning a younger looking Katherine as to why she, Dylan and her husband are suddenly moving. Katherine tells them that she got a job in Chicago and she refuses to let Susan get Julie to say goodbye to Dylan. A crashing noise is heard upstairs and Katherine tells them she was really going to miss them and shuts the door.
During the first three seasons of the show, Mary Alice's voice has appeared as main narrator in every episode except one - Rex Van de Kamp (played by Steven Culp) narrated the sixteenth episode of season three, My Husband, the Pig.
In addition to this, she has appeared in person in eight episodes. Besides the pilot episode, where she commits suicide, she's appeared in flashbacks and dream sequences in episodes 1.03, 1.08, 1.23, 2.16, 2.23, 3.07, and 4.02 |
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