Mary Alice Young (formerly Angela Forrest) is the omniscient narrator of Desperate Housewives, as well as one of its titular characters and occasional protagonists. A warm, seemingly happy suburban housewife, Mary Alice broke the thin layer of perfection covering Wisteria Lane the day she put a gun to her head and shot herself. From then on, and from her elevated state of point of view, Mary Alice has been waxing poetic on the not-so-perfect lives of all of her friends, neighbors and family members, as well as other residents of Wisteria Lane. No one there is safe from Mary Alice's insightful observations and intimate knowledge. Mary Alice's sudden death inspires her circle of best friends to try and figure out the secrets she was keeping that constituted reasons for her suicide, which tri