Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter And A Jury Of Her Peers

“Lamb to the Slaughter,” written by Ronald Dahl and “A Jury of Her Peers,” written by Susan Glaspell mirror many of the same events, while keeping ideas different along the way.

In Dahl’s and Glaspell’s story, they share the same idea of having the murderers being the victim, if you look at it from a different perspective. In both stories, the wives kill their husband. Mary Maloney, who was a character written by Dahl, murdered her husband because he was going to leave/ divorce her while she was pregnant. Minnie Foster, from Glaspell’s story, also killed her husband because he strangled her only real companion, a bird. Although they committed these acts for different reasons, they were both still the ones being neglected in their marriage. Mary Maloney would sit in her chair, opposite from the empty one, wait for her husband to walk through the door from work. Once he was home, he’d said little to none

In Dahl’s story, Mary was told that “her husband...had been killed by a blow on the back of the head administered with a heavy blunt instrument,” which was caused by the lamb leg. What the police officers didn’t know is that Mary had “carried the meat into the kitchen, placed it in a pan, turned the oven on high, and shoved it inside.” When Mary insisted they eat the dinner she had created, they were ironically eating the evidence while agreeing it would be somewhere around or in the house. In Glaspell’s story, Minnie had killed her husband, Mr. Wright, by “slipping a thing around his neck that choked the life out of him,” while he slept. When Mrs. Hale, wife of the man who found Mr. Wright’s body, discovered Minnie’s canary’s neck wrung, she hid it. When Mrs. Hale and her friend, Mrs. Peters, stumbled upon the evidence, they knew they couldn’t let the sheriff see it. They determined that it was right to hide it because they believed Minnie was the