Compare And Contrast Desiree's Baby And Lamb To The Slaughter

In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Desiree Valmonde and Mary Maloney are two smitten housewives living in two different eras of time; Desiree lives in the time of slavery while Mary seems to live around the ‘50s. Although there are years in time difference, both women are willing to wait on hand and foot for their husbands. Neither give their husbands a true reason to break off the relationship yet both husbands do. While Desiree and Mary go through radical rearrangements, both women deal with it differently. While both stories deal with a vast change in both women, the reasons for the change and the outcome are different in both stories. Desiree and Mary both go through traumatic experiences and