Lamb To The Slaughter Sparknotes

The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin explores the perspective of a werewolf's wife and his transformation into a human. "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl follows a housewife's unexpected response to her husband's betrayal, using a leg of lamb. The narrative point of view in "Wife" and "Lamb" is crucial in determining how the reader interprets each story. Character development, deliberate withholding of information to create plot twists are all implemented through the authors skilled use of perspective. The ways in which these stories' varied points of view enhance their overall effect and narrative effectiveness will be addressed.

Both stories depict characters undergoing transformation, with "Lamb" focusing on Mary Maloney and "Wife" on the

In “Lamb”, a limited third person point of view is used. In the story, Mary Maloney’s perceptions are represented in the narrator’s description: “Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work” (pg. 1). The adage of the adage. Mary being represented as the protagonist in the narrator’s point of view leads the reader to understand Mary more than her husband: “For her, this was always a blissful time of the day. She knew he didn’t want to speak much until the first drink was finished. she loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, to feel almost as a sunbather feels the sun” (pg. 1). The adage of the adage. Mary is a housewife whose happiness, self-value and existence roots from the presence of a partner. The simile, ‘sunbather in the sun’, displays that her husband makes her feel warm and alive and that he brings her an addictive feeling. She knows her husband better than herself, as displayed in ‘she knew he didn’t want to speak until his first drink was finished’. This shows how she is used to his daily routine and takes pride in caring for him and knowing his schedule. Him coming home each day is the ‘blissful’ highlight of her day. Mary will do what she needs, to feel the warm