Special Lang Arts post

The similarities and the differences between Lamb To The Slaughter and The Way Up To Heaven.

Similarities

What is common in both stories are that the female lead, which was the wives were very pleasing towards their husbands, however their husbands seemed to be taking their wives for granted and did not seem to really care about them. In the case of Lamb To The Slaughter, the callous Patrick Maloney was heartless enough to leave her wife, Mary, who was already pregnant with his child, and was only concerned about her not making her fuss as it might affect his work. While in Way Up To Heaven, the husband clearly knew that his wife disliked being late, and was "afraid" of being late, however he somehow tries to irritate her purposely by being slow and fussy, while on their way to catch the plane to Paris to visit their grandchildren. The wife finally found out what his husband was up to and when he knew that his husband was stuck in the lift, she just ignored the fact, and left her husband in the lift. Both stories clearly shows that both women were shrewd and intelligent and the fact that how both of them got away with the murder.

Differences

The major differences in the story was that one of them murdered her husband directly while the other murdered his husband indirectly and Mary Maloney was overcomed by her vengefulness which caused the murder while in Way Up To Heaven, the wife only to the thought of "murdering" her husband when she found out that her husband was stuck in the lift.



Both stories are simillar in the way that they are deception stories and these are the differences and similarities for it.