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    Lamb To The Slaughter: A Short Story by Roald Dahl

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    Mary Maloney kills her husband Patrick, a detective, after he tells her he wants a divorce. Using her knowledge from living with a detective, she manipulates the crime scene and investigation to avoid suspicion. When police come to question her as a witness, she serves them lamb from her husband's frozen body. Unable to find any evidence against her, the murderer escapes punishment.

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    Lamb To The Slaughter: A Short Story by Roald Dahl

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    Mary Maloney kills her husband Patrick, a detective, after he tells her he wants a divorce. Using her knowledge from living with a detective, she manipulates the crime scene and investigation to avoid suspicion. When police come to question her as a witness, she serves them lamb from her husband's frozen body. Unable to find any evidence against her, the murderer escapes punishment.

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    Mary Maloney kills her husband Patrick, a detective, after he tells her he wants a divorce. Using her knowledge from living with a detective, she manipulates the crime scene and investigation to avoid suspicion. When police come to question her as a witness, she serves them lamb from her husband's frozen body. Unable to find any evidence against her, the murderer escapes punishment.

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    Lamb To The Slaughter: A Short Story by Roald Dahl

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    Mary Maloney kills her husband Patrick, a detective, after he tells her he wants a divorce. Using her knowledge from living with a detective, she manipulates the crime scene and investigation to avoid suspicion. When police come to question her as a witness, she serves them lamb from her husband's frozen body. Unable to find any evidence against her, the murderer escapes punishment.

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    The story is about a woman named Mary Maloney who kills her husband Patrick after he tells her he wants a divorce. She is able to cover up the murder by manipulating the evidence. The story explores themes of betrayal, desperation, and manipulation.

    The main conflict is between Mary and Patrick. When Patrick tells Mary he wants a divorce, she kills him in a desperate act.

    The main characters are Mary Maloney, a housewife, and her husband Patrick Maloney, a policeman. Mary kills Patrick after he tells her he wants a divorce.

    Lamb to the Slaughter

    A short story by Roald Dahl


    A brief resume
    This story is about Mary Maloney and her husband
    Patrick who was a detective. It seems that she loved
    her husband dearly. But shockingly she killed him
    when he told her that he was going to leave her. As
    she had lived with a detective husband, she knew the
    ways to prove herself innocent from the charge of
    murdering him. After coming home, she rang up the
    police and the detectives and informed them about
    the murder of her husband, Patrick. Investigations
    went on, but in vain. Nobody could raise a finger of
    suspicion on Mary Maloney as there was no evidence
    against her. Thus, a murderer moves freely in the
    society.
    Main Characters
    Mary Maloney is a pregnant housewife who is married to Patrick and
    who loves him. She thinks she knows everything about him( his
    schedule, tastes,)She looks harmless and meek as a lamb at first but
    she is so desperate on hearing that Patrick is going to leave her that she
    kills him. We also discover another aspect of her personality when she
    regains her self control. She manages to manipulate the grocer and the
    policemen who are led to believe that she is innocent.
    Patrick Maloney: we dont know much about him except that he is
    Marys husband and we can imagine that they share a boring routine. He
    is a policeman. He wants to tell Mary something and we quickly
    understand that he has been unfaithful and wants to get a divorce.


    What does this story tell us?
    Lamb to the Slaughter allow us to see the
    aspects of human perversity , cruelty and the
    violence in the relationships between people
    .
    This tale gives us an cynically individualist
    author, as well as some dark humor
    elements.
    The horror in this short story prevails in the
    grotesque
    Lamb to the Slaughter is an expression
    used to describe someone who does
    not know what is coming, someone
    inocent , just like a lamb before getting
    into the slaughter. Patrick Maloney is
    the figurated lamb in this story, as he
    remains in the dark about his wife
    reactions until she kills him.
    Meaning of the title

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