The Wall Summary and Analysis

About a year before Mick got married, Marianne met Lord Paddy Rossmore. She describes him as "clever and bookish." She saw being with him as a respectable way out of her relationship with Mick. He was in love with her so she got married to Paddy. He didn't know about her drug addiction. When he found out, he took her to see a doctor. The therapy was to give her Valium. Paddy ended up leaving her after about 9 months. At that time, Marianne let her mother completely take over her life.

Marianne found living without Mick was much harder than living with him. He had been protecting her. She was approached by Kenneth Anger who asked her to be in the film Lucifer Rising. She was crawling around Gaza soaked in blood. It further contributed to a fiendish image...