1.

The title "Lamb to the slaughter" refers to the story since

it means ignorance and innocence. It conveys the idea
that a lamb is innocent and doesn't ask questions and
doesn't think about the implications that can come out of
naive actions, just like Mary Maloney has thrown the leg
of the lamb at her husband. She had been very calm, and
she was even happy afterward and was unaware of the
fact that she and her incoming baby will probably be
killed when the police will discover that Mrs. Maloney
was the one who killed her husband. It's ironic since the
literal meaning of it is that a lamb is leading to slaughter
(slaughter of Patrick Maloney).
The title "The way up to heaven" refers to the story since
Mrs. Foster is sending Mr. foster up to heaven as she had
left him stuck between the second and third floor when
he went up in the elevator to their apartment. The story is
called "The way up to heaven" because Mr. foster had
been on his way up to heaven (he died), just as he had
been on his way up to their apartment. It's ironic since
Mr. Foster was the one who sealed his fate while he
wanted to annoy his wife by taking his time so she will be
anxious, and about those kinds of things, you go to
heaven, just like Mr. Foster went up to heaven after his
actions.
2. The relationship between Mrs. and Mr. Maloney isn't very
healthy. Mrs. Maloney cares a lot about her husband, she
attempts to make him feel comfortable, as opposed to
Mr. Maloney, who doesn't care about his wife but cares
more about his work as a detective. As Mr. Maloney
comes back from work, Mary cares about how was his day
and if he is tired, and if he wants her to cook him dinner
instead of going out like they usually do every Thursday.
Instead of being kind to Mary, Patrick replies with dry
 answers, so Mary understood something happened and
as he told her what happened, she got angry at him, and
it leaded to the fact that she had thrown a lamb at him
and killed him. We can learn about Mary from this
situation that she has a short fuse and about Patrick that
he was sorry for his actions (this can be understood from
the fact that he behaved differently than usual. He didn't
want to go out to eat outside and he drunk all the wine in
a single sip instead of drinking slowly as usual). It is a story
of revenge since that as an act of revenge on what Patrick
has told his wife (probably he told her that they're
divorcing), she killed him with a frozen leg of lamb.
The relationship between Mrs. and Mr. Foster is very
unhealthy. Both are acting like babies by disturbing and
annoying each other on purpose. As Mrs. Foster is
worrying about being on time for her flight, Mr. Foster
does his best to make her late so she will miss her flight
and get angry. Because they are behaving like babies, she
was looking for a way to pay him back and when she
heard that he is stuck in the elevator she didn't hurry to
help him, but she escaped to the airport in order to be on
time for her flight. We can learn from those actions that
Mr. Foster likes to annoy his wife and Mrs. Foster is very
hasty and revengeful and she decided to leave her
husband to die in the elevator instead of trying to help
him. It is a story of revenge since that as an act of revenge
to that Mr. Foster made Mrs. Foster late for her flight, she
didn't help him to get out of the stuck elevator and left
him there to die.
3. The first impression about Mrs. Maloney is that she is just
a normal pregnant woman who loves her husband and
cares about him. This impression changes quite fast in the
story, as she decides to throw on her husband a leg of a
 lamb and kill him in that way. As she does that, we learn
that maybe she doesn't love her husband as much as we
thought on our first impression of her.
The first impression about Mrs. Foster is that she is an
ordinary, organized, kind woman who likes to be on time
for places. Our impression of her changes when she
leaves her husband to die, stuck in the elevator. At this
moment we can learn about her that she is revengeful
and isn't as kind as we thought she is.
4. I think that Mrs. Maloney is the villain in the story and Mr.
Maloney is the victim. The fact that her husband told her
something that made her angry isn't a good reason for
murdering him. Also, she acted like a villain as she tried to
hide the evidence (the leg of the lamb) and ended up
hiding it by giving it as supper for the detectives who
came to search for evidence. If she was the victim, she
wasn't running to the grocery to buy some vegetables for
dinner to get an alibi because victims don't need to prove
themselves as innocent, only villains need. I think Mr.
Maloney is the victim in the story because he wasn't
doing anything to his wife, couples are divorcing quite a
lot and divorce isn't a reason to kill someone.
I think that Mr. Foster is the villain in the story and Mrs.
Foster is the victim. Mr. Foster is annoying all the time
and although he knows about Mrs. Foster's problem of
being late to places, he does everything to make her late
for her flight. Mrs. Foster is acting from a place of a
woman in an anxiety attack, which is very hard to control,
and she doesn't think about her actions at this moment.
But Mrs. Foster is still the victim because the villain, her
husband, made her be in an anxiety attack, and in doing
so he sealed his fate.
5. One thing that is similar in the stories "Lamb to the
slaughter" and "The way up to heaven" is that in both
stories the wife is killing her husband. Another thing that
is similar in those stories is that in the end, both wives are
not proven as murderers. One thing that is different
between the stories is that in the story "Lamb to the
slaughter" Mrs. Maloney is directly killing her husband by
throwing on him a leg of lamb, but in the story "The way
up to heaven" Mrs. Foster isn't directly killing her
husband, she just does not help him to get out of the
stuck elevator. Another thing that is different between
the stories is that in the story "Lamb to the slaughter" the
husband didn't deserve to die, but in the story "The way
up to heaven" the husband deserved to die because he
was so annoying to his wife, and he didn't care about her.
The irony in the story "Lamb to the slaughter" is that Mr.
Maloney said "Don't make supper for me because I am
going out" but at this moment he did not know that she is
going to kill him, and he will not escape the house ever
again. Another irony in this story is that a policeman said,
"the evidence is right under our nose" and it was, they
were eating the evidence. The irony in the story "The way
up to heaven" is that Mrs. Foster is writing letters to her
husband from Paris, although she already knew he is dead
because she left him to die instead of helping him escape
the elevator. Another irony in the story is that Mr. Foster
was the one who sealed his fate while he wanted to
annoy his wife and take his time so she will be anxious,
and about those kinds of things you go to heaven, just like
Mr. Foster went up in the elevator to heaven.