Compare/Contrast Essay Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, and A Jury of Her Peers, by Susan Glaspell share many qualities, but also have their differences. The differences Lamb to the Slaughter and A Jury of Her Peers have are their settings, the methods, motives, and weapons in the murders, and how the evidence was kept hidden from the police. The two short stories are similar in the ways that they are both murder stories, both times the wife kills the husband over some marital issue, and crucial evidence in the murder case was withheld or hidden.
In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary’s husband comes home one night after a long day of work and sits down on the couch to have some drinks. A pretty normal night, except that night he had news for Mary. He tells Mary that he’s going to divorce her. This was simply too much for Mary to handle. She goes …show more content…
In A Jury of Her Peers, Mrs. Hale was the main character and she, along with her husband was invited to Minnie Wright’s house to search for evidence on the case of John Wright's murder. The reader is told by a depressed and sullen Minnie that he was hung in the middle of the night and that she didn’t even wake up to see or hear any of this. In both stories, the motives for the murders are a marital issue that drives the wife to kill her husband. In Lamb to the Slaughter, it’s divorce that hurts Mary so deeply that she kills Patrick. In A Jury of Her Peers, it’s that John kills the Canary that Minnie so dearly loved. Mrs.Hale described Minnie in earlier years as a cheerful person who liked to sing, someone who everyone liked. It’s suggested that John was such a terrible husband that he killed all of these qualities and turned her into the woman that the reader knows; a depressed, quiet, and shaken shell of her former self. In each story, crucial evidence to the murder case was withheld, and in one story, unintentionally destroyed by the people looking for it. In Lamb to the Slaughter, the weapon was the
In Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary’s husband comes home one night after a long day of work and sits down on the couch to have some drinks. A pretty normal night, except that night he had news for Mary. He tells Mary that he’s going to divorce her. This was simply too much for Mary to handle. She goes …show more content…
In A Jury of Her Peers, Mrs. Hale was the main character and she, along with her husband was invited to Minnie Wright’s house to search for evidence on the case of John Wright's murder. The reader is told by a depressed and sullen Minnie that he was hung in the middle of the night and that she didn’t even wake up to see or hear any of this. In both stories, the motives for the murders are a marital issue that drives the wife to kill her husband. In Lamb to the Slaughter, it’s divorce that hurts Mary so deeply that she kills Patrick. In A Jury of Her Peers, it’s that John kills the Canary that Minnie so dearly loved. Mrs.Hale described Minnie in earlier years as a cheerful person who liked to sing, someone who everyone liked. It’s suggested that John was such a terrible husband that he killed all of these qualities and turned her into the woman that the reader knows; a depressed, quiet, and shaken shell of her former self. In each story, crucial evidence to the murder case was withheld, and in one story, unintentionally destroyed by the people looking for it. In Lamb to the Slaughter, the weapon was the