Lamb To The Slaughter Patrick Maloney Analysis

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Dramatic re-enactments of short stories and novels can be useful to the reader. Many others disagree and believe they do spoil the experience for the for the reader. As for me I do believe that a re-enactment of a short story can spoil the experience for me.

In the short story lamb to the slaughter Patrick Maloney tells Mary Maloney something very important but as the reader we are left in the dark. we don't know what Patrick tells her but we can infer as to what he might have said. In short stories we can imagine what the setting, characters and what their voices are like.

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