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Symbolism Lamb To The Slaughter

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In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, the lamb is symbolic of Mary Maloney’s facade as an innocent housewife. The story starts with Mary, pregnant and peacefully waiting for her husband, Patrick, to return from work. Patrick, acting strangely according to Mary, reveals something that shifts Mary’s worldview. In a daze, Mary says that she will go prepare supper, a leg of lamb from the freezer. Instead, she uses the leg to murder Patrick. Mary then concocts her plan to get away with the murder and starts spinning her web of lies, lying to the grocer and the police. Additionally, while playing the role of a grieving, pregnant wife, she pleads to the officers: “Would you please do me a favour... I know Patrick would never forgive
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