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Lamb To The Slaughter By Roald Dahl

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The suspenseful short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is about a 6 month pregnant 1953 housewife, named Mary Maloney. Happy with her seamless marriage and life, Mary eagerly awaits in their cozy apartment for her husband Patrick to come home, not expecting her life to terribly change. Patrick comes home in fury, finally telling Mary that he is leaving her, and as maddened and heartbroken as she was; she showed no emotion toward what just occurred. A man vs. self-conflict arises and she kills Patrick with the leg of a lamb she was supposed to cook him for dinner. As the story progresses, Mary has a man vs. self-conflict, where she does not know what to do with Patrick’s murder case and her emotions start to change. At first, she
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