Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter And A Jury Of Her Peers

“Lamb to the Slaughter” and “A Jury of Her Peers” have many similar aspects, but also differ in numerous ways.
In both stories, the women, Mary Maloney and Minnie Wright, murdered their husbands. Although both women were angry about something their husband had done, they had different motives behind their murders. In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary Maloney spends all of her time alone waiting for her husband to come home. Her husband usually treated her well, but one night he decided that he had to be honest with her and end their marriage. Mary was so angry that she went downstairs, got a frozen leg of lamb, and hit her husband on the head. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Minnie has different motives. Her husband never treated her well, and the last straw was when he killed her bird by hanging him. To get revenge, Minnie did just what her husband did to her bird and hung him. Although the murders were carried out differently and occurred

Both “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “A Jury of Her Peers” were set in small towns. They also both took place in the 20th century. The time period of both stories is very important, it explains why the women are looked upon differently than they would be in the present. Although the women in both stories are treated in a different manner than they would be now, they are not treated the same in both stories. In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” which is set in the 1950s, women are not treated equal, but they are respected. The women do not work, and spend much of their time doing household chores and waiting for their husbands to return, but most men treat them kindly. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” which is set in 1917, the men see themselves as superior to the women in the story. They often make rude comments and do not respect the women, explaining why Minnie killed her husband. Although the stories have similar settings, the time period is not the exact same, making the stories very