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

A family. At first, they might seem distant; but on closer inspection you see. You find. The truth is that they are not at all distant, just misunderstanding. They are a family who love each other down to their final heartbeat but don't know how to express those feelings. In the short stories, Penny in the Dust, by Ernest Buckler, and Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, things aren't always what they seem. In Penny to the Dust, the father and his son seem distant at first, but they actually love each other dearly; and in Lamb to the Slaughter, the husband and wife seem very close, but the husband actually wants to leave. The big picture is that, on the inside, things aren’t always what they seem on the outside.
To begin with, humans misinterpret feeling all the time; whether you think someone's happy when they're down sad when they’re glad. These things can cause problems in relationships, but a mutual understanding can also help the relationship. In Penny to the Dust, The dad and his son, Dan, seem distant; with the dad thinking that his son hid because he would beat him, “‘Dan,’ he said, ‘You needn't hid. I wouldn’ta beat you.’ ‘Beat me? Oh, Father! You didn’t think that …show more content…
‘But I've thought about it a good deal and I've decided the only thing to do is tell you right away. I hope you won't blame me too much.’ And he told her. It didn't take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word. "So there it is," he added. "And I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you, bet there simply wasn't any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job.’" From this, we can infer that the husband is saying he wants a divorce. This promptly causes him to lose his