Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter And Penny In The Dust

Many couples fight when they are mad, angry, or upset. Though this is true, this doesn’t mean the two don’t love each other. Often love isn’t shown at all times, but it is still there. Love can be complicated, and love can not always be as it seems. In the short story, “Penny in the Dust,” written by Ernest Buckler, and in another short story titled, “Lamb to the Slaughter,” done by Roald Dahl, we see in each two characters who obtain a complicated relationship together although they are in love, proving that love isn’t always as it may seem. After reading these two pieces, it is clear that this theme is represented similarly in the two texts. “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a story of how a woman named Mary loves her husband to the moon …show more content…
It was easy. No acting necessary.” This quote proves that this woman does still love her husband to be so emotional seeing him dead, and Mary only acts through shock and anger in a split moment when she kills him. Because Mary loves her husband, but it may not seem that way without enough information, it is proven that love can be complicated, and not always as it may seem. Likewise, in “Penny in the Dust,” we learn of how a father and son have a complicated relationship as they love one another, but are so different that they often have trouble expressing their love and are uncomfortable in each other’s presence. From the outside looking in, someone may believe that the two don’t love each other for it isn’t evident they share any close bond, but together they both know how much they care for one another. This complicated relationship is explained on page one of this short story in a few lines that read, “There’s no way you can tell it to make it sound like anything more than an inarticulate man a little at sea with an imaginative child. You’ll have to take my word for it that there was more to it than that.” Quite plainly,