Analysis Lamb To The Slaughter

Mary had a little Lamb “So i've killed him” is what Mary had said in the passage “Lamb to the slaughter.” This is a story about a woman,named Mary, who killed her husband because he has told her he was going to leave her. When she heard that she couldn't understand why, so she decided to kill him with a lamb. Being a wife of a detective she knew that nobody would suspect from her so she planned everything. When the police came by they thought that it would be impossible for her to have killed her own husband so they went with the story that tit had been someone else that had gone away. The police believed everything and ate dinner with her they ended up eating a lamb which had been the same Lamb that Mary had killed her husband with. A central idea that this passage conveys is that individuals in power often underestimate their opponents. Many people that have power always underestimate their opponents. In the passage,the police didn't expect Mary,the wife, to have been the one to have killed her own husband,because of the way that she was acting. In the text it states, “acted quite normal...very cheerful...wanted to give him a good supper...peas...cheesecake...impossible that she…”From this piece of evidence, it can
In the text it states, “she wants us to finish it.She said so.Be doing her a favor.” This evidence shows how the authority has no clue that Mary was the one that killed her husband. The police could have asked Mary more questions about where she had been. Instead the authority ended eating the murder weapon that might have imprisoned the criminal. They assumed that everything the wife had done was because she wanted to make supper for her husband,but it is all a plan to be able to get away with the