The Lamb To The Slaughter Analysis

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“The Landlady” and “The Lamb to the Slaughter” had differences and similarities which were a little bit tricky to notice. For example, both stories were written by the same author, Roald Dahl. In addition, both stories were about woman who murdered men. The tricky part was noticing the similarities because though the stories were about woman who killed men, that was the easiest similarite to find. The following paragraph will identify the similarities and differences that I noticed.

First of all, the similarities were they were written by the same author. Furthermore, the way they were murdered was by food.In addition, the woman in both stories was motherly and lonely. In both

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