In the Short Story Lamb to The Slaughter by Roald Dahl, A jaunty husband and wife live a happy life until the husband decides to tell his wife he’s been having an affair. Irony is important to this story. Irony is the whole basis of this story. Even though Mary seems docile and nonchalant after she’s been told her husband had been having an affair, She can act out of character as well. In the passage Mary, who is usually calm and loving of her husband clubs him in the back of the head with a frozen leg of lamb. This is situational irony because nobody would expect Mary to do this. They would expect her to talk it out with her husband. After Mary kills Patrick, the police are called, and even though police are supposed to discover camouflaged
