In ¡§Lamb to the Slaughter¡¨, Roald Dahl employs characters and symbolism well to discuss the theme that things are not always what they appear to be. Now I am going to focus on discussing the characters of this story. The story¡¦s main character, Mary Maloney, who is a pregnant wife of Patrick Maloney. The Maloney household is located in a large city and the event happened within a day. Mary is a content housewife …showed first 75 words of 757 total…

…showed last 75 words of 757 total…home and didn't want to go out that night, leaving her with no vegetables in the house for supper. Her technique was to keep on asking her questions, asking what he would suggest for dessert, so later when the police would arrive, Sam would remember quite clearly remember Mrs. Maloney's visit. He would tell the police that she was in a normal state of mind and cheerful state, and therefore, letting her off the hook.