Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter
In comparison I would say the necklace is better then Lamb to the Slaughter. I say this because Lamb of the Slaughter wasn't that more of irony, but more of what was expected to happen. Like in the story Lamb of the Slaughter when she gets sad and mad, I kinda knew that she would do something about it. I also knew when she walked behind her husband she was going to hit him in the back of the head. Now in The Necklace in the beginning of the story, it had this girl named Mathidle Loisel, she is in middle class, and she wishes to be more wealthy, she just dreams and images of living a perfect life that she's not having. She just has the daydreams of fancy furniture, and and an better house.
One day she gets invited to a ball, and she throws
a fit because she doesn't have anything to wear. Then she ask money from her husband, he agrees, and a little bit after she throws another one because she has any jewelry to wear. She then goes to see her rich friend, that hopes to give her something. When she gets there her friend lets her borrow a gorgeous diamond necklace. With the necklace she hopes to be more stunning than others. On the night of the ball she has an good time, and they stay at the place for an good amount of time, and catch a cab, then go home. When they reach their house, they realize that the diamond necklace is gone. Mathidle spends a week looking for the this necklace all around the city, but finds nothing. Then they get to the point where they just say, they are going to buy one. So they find one, and it costs 36 thousand francs. So at this moment they look for loan sharks and ask everyone for money, for the past ten years it has put Mathidle ten years to poverty. They lose everything including their house. Then on top of all of this Mathidle looks all worked down and all her good looks are gone, from all of the work.
From there she meets her friend back that she gave the necklace to, and when she tells her after all what happens the friend tells her that the necklace was fake and it only costs 500 francs. Now from this story I think it has more of situational irony than the Lamb of the Slaughter, I would say at least. Just because on how she didn't even try to ask her friend that gave her the necklace how much I should pay you, or just have been loyal and could have told her that she lost the necklace, and she could have just told her that it only costs 500 francs, and all they had to do is pay them back. Instead she does not tell her, and actually put themselves in 10 years of poverty. In Lamb of the Slaughter I actually expected the woman to do something to the man.
Furthermore she would just put into danger or failure. She basically went crazy, because of pregnancy hormones, and just hit him in the back of the head and killed him. That's why I say that The Necklace is better, because of how the women was ungrateful and she eventually messes over herself. Now in The Lamb of the Slaughter she just kills her husband when he says he about to leave, and the cops come, and she acts like a man just came in and killed him. Then the woman gave the police the Lamb that she killed him with.
One day she gets invited to a ball, and she throws
a fit because she doesn't have anything to wear. Then she ask money from her husband, he agrees, and a little bit after she throws another one because she has any jewelry to wear. She then goes to see her rich friend, that hopes to give her something. When she gets there her friend lets her borrow a gorgeous diamond necklace. With the necklace she hopes to be more stunning than others. On the night of the ball she has an good time, and they stay at the place for an good amount of time, and catch a cab, then go home. When they reach their house, they realize that the diamond necklace is gone. Mathidle spends a week looking for the this necklace all around the city, but finds nothing. Then they get to the point where they just say, they are going to buy one. So they find one, and it costs 36 thousand francs. So at this moment they look for loan sharks and ask everyone for money, for the past ten years it has put Mathidle ten years to poverty. They lose everything including their house. Then on top of all of this Mathidle looks all worked down and all her good looks are gone, from all of the work.
From there she meets her friend back that she gave the necklace to, and when she tells her after all what happens the friend tells her that the necklace was fake and it only costs 500 francs. Now from this story I think it has more of situational irony than the Lamb of the Slaughter, I would say at least. Just because on how she didn't even try to ask her friend that gave her the necklace how much I should pay you, or just have been loyal and could have told her that she lost the necklace, and she could have just told her that it only costs 500 francs, and all they had to do is pay them back. Instead she does not tell her, and actually put themselves in 10 years of poverty. In Lamb of the Slaughter I actually expected the woman to do something to the man.
Furthermore she would just put into danger or failure. She basically went crazy, because of pregnancy hormones, and just hit him in the back of the head and killed him. That's why I say that The Necklace is better, because of how the women was ungrateful and she eventually messes over herself. Now in The Lamb of the Slaughter she just kills her husband when he says he about to leave, and the cops come, and she acts like a man just came in and killed him. Then the woman gave the police the Lamb that she killed him with.