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With a close examination between the two stories ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, by Roald Dahl, and ‘Desiree’s Baby’, by Kate Chopin, there will be close similarities about a once loving wife toward her husband and a once loving husband towards his wife, now with the husband showing no more interests towards the wife, leaving her in an emotional distress, causing her to act out in a very hollow manner. The similarities that both ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ and ‘Desiree’s Baby’ share, is the cause that started the twist. When the similar main female characters are cast out from their husbands, when the husband had stopped showing love to the wife. When, in ‘Desiree’s Baby’, Armand, the husband of the female protagonist, Desiree, was showing her a face of pure love, as a husband should, especially after their first child, a son, which had no name. But, when son was three months, Armand had changed in mood since the baby …show more content…

They would show it as if it was real; maybe, even, it was at some point, but they would never know how long it would last, or when it would end and how it would affect them as a whole, such as Desiree and Ms.Maloney had. When Armand had casted her out because of a colored baby, although it was clear that Desiree was even lighter than Armand, stopped loving her for it, and it ended in suicide. When Patrick was acting different towards Ms.Maloney, it was obvious from there, that something was going to happen, something was clearly bothering him, even Ms.Maloney saw it. And then when he broke the news to her, she was horrified, broken and depressed, or hollow. Each story represents one girl with a gun, and deciding on which story, will decide which way the gun is

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