“‘Probably right under our very noses. What do you think, Jack?’ And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle” (116). In the story Lamb to the Slaughter By Roald Dahl the ending is what really inspired me to write about it, because it brings it to a perfect ending, like the feeling you get when you tie the perfect bow. During the entirety of the story I never knew how it was going to end or what was going to happen. After Mary Maloney killed her husband I expected her to be afraid or sorry, but then she made the perfectly thought out plan to go to the market and pick up potatoes, peas and a cheesecake then come home and act like she knew as little as the police officers did. Because Mary’s husband was a detective they both knew all of
