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

The short stories “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “A Jury of Her Peers” are have both similarities and differences, like the setting, motive for murder, and personalities.

The setting of these two stories is very different. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” it is around mid 1900s in a small town in Canada. Also it seems like it is in a small simple suburban house. While “A Jury of Her Peers” the setting is early 20th century in the rolling hills of the midwest country in America in what seems to be a small poorly kept cabin. Both setting play a big role in the storyline, for example in “A Jury of Her Peers” nobody ever visited Mrs. Wright because it was out of the way and it seemed to the main characters like a cold not pleasant place to be. While in “Lamb to the Slaughter” the Maloney’s house was fairly close to town, because Mary Maloney walked to town to get groceries and it said, “The car came very quickly,” this means that their house was pretty close to town which is most likely where the police

For example in “Lamb to the Slaughter” Mrs. Maloney was pregnant and we interpret that her husband told her that he was going to leave her for a different woman, her husband was also being very rude and disrespectful to her after he tells her this therefore she is angered by this and hits him with a frozen leg of lamb. The motive behind the murder in “A Jury of Her Peers” is very different, Mrs. Wright kills her husband because he has mentally killed her, also he kills her canary the only thing that kept her going therefore she strangles her husband to death while he slept. Both stories find evidence but none that will make a difference or help them convict the criminal. Although the women find a dead canary covered up in a box that would make a big difference in the case, they do not present this new found evidence as to preserve Mrs. Wright’s chances in a