After the discovery of her parents bodies, lizzie was hardly shocked. When she found her father, she swooped to the foot of the stairs and called for bridget. She did not faint, she did not panic, she was rather calm for someone to have just seen the dead body of her father. and instead of begging for people to stay with lizzie, she sent them away as they came on errands as if she had planned out these attacks and had known what she had to ask of her neighbors and friends.
in july, at the trial, lizzy borden was almost as monotone as a board. she barely cried, and did not look GENUINELY sad or caring. she constantly looked to her defense attorneys for instructions on how to ask, and when presented with the skulls of her parents, she THEN fainted, rather than at the sight of her dead father and mother.
After the trial "Lizzie let out a yell, sank into her chair, rested her hands on a courtroom rail, put her face in her hands, and then let out a second cry of joy." (Linden). She did not act as if she had just lost her family, and instead acted as if she had just got away with murder.