Ari Wisenberg
October 18, 2012
Intro Paragraph For Lamb To The Slaughter
Lamb To The Slaughter is a very strange, horrific story. Mrs. Maloney, the main character, kills her husband by brutally hitting him with a leg of lamb; “she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head. She might just as well have hit him with a steel club”. Mrs. Maloney does this because her husband said that he had to leave her, but the story does not say why he had to leave her, it simply skipped the lines; “And he told her. It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all”. Mrs. Maloney is very un-ethical. She continued to lie to everyone about it, telling the people of the town that she came home and found her husband dead; “and she must cook it good, and make it as tasty as possible because the poor man was tired; and if, when she entered the house, she happened to find anything unusual, or tragic, or terrible, then naturally it would be a shock and she’d become frantic with grief and horror”. The story is difficult for the reader to understand because it does not tell the reader what people’s motives were.
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