m.- life is extremely difficult:Such was Mother McTeague.At Mike""s Saloon, two saloon tarts/brothel girls look out from an upstairs window and point toward a traveling dentist""s buggy that is approaching.We can""t just kill it").Owen predicted: "Those men are gonna die" - and he shouted: "You need to call his mission off right now!" - but he was ignored.She drew a red stick-figure of herself (labeled Alice) in the front of the dilapidated house.She deeply concentrated and then entered the dream world to accompany Mark and attempt o protect him.Cain""s 1941 ""hard-boiled"" novel of the same name.Cain""s original novel was a satire about bourgeois values, and a tale of poor parenthood.[Note: Cain was responsible for two sources forfilm noirclassics - his 1936 novella forDouble Indemnity (1944)and his best-selling work forMildred Pierce (1945).