A Glowing Future Mary Maloney Analysis

When people realize they have been betrayed, a number of different emotions may be felt upon it. The most common is anger although, depending on the situation, they might fear the loss of the relationship and repulsion at the lack of integrity of the other person. The one who has been betrayed may also seek for justice, something that would make them feel better. In the short stories “A glowing future” and “Lamb to the slaughter”, Betsy and Mary Maloney, who had been betrayed, reacted with anger towards the situation and seeked for justice. The circumstances under they killed their partners were very much alike.
Maurice was selfish, self centered and unfaithful. He had gone to Australia for a year and had only called her twice during that period; the first one to say he loved her and missed her, and the second one to tell her that we would come back home, where Betsy was waiting to marry him. But his plans were different. He had fallen in love with another woman, Patricia, and he would move in with her in Australia. But he waited
Neither of the two women used a regular weapon like a gun or a knife. In the case of Betsy, she used a lamp. When she woke up the morning after Maurice had pushed her against the trunk, he provoked her again by writing a note for Patricia and mocking her about her behavior of the night before. She took the lamp he was about to put in the trunk, raised it and struck him with it full in the forehead, he screamed but she gave him a great swinging blow with all her strength and he fell to his knees and rolled over, dead. In the same way, Mary used the frozen leg of a lamb she had intended to prepare for supper. When she came back to the living room, she found him standing over the window with his back to her. She walked up behind him and swung the big frozen leg of a lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his