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In comparison I would say the necklace is better then Lamb to the Slaughter. I say this because Lamb of the Slaughter wasn't that more of irony, but more of what was expected to happen. Like in the story Lamb of the Slaughter when she gets sad and mad, I kinda knew that she would do something about it. I also knew when she walked behind her husband she was going to hit him in the back of the head. Now in The Necklace in the beginning of the story, it had this girl named Mathidle Loisel, she is in middle class, and she wishes to be more wealthy, she just dreams and images of living a perfect life that she's not having. She just has the daydreams of fancy furniture, and and an better house.

One day she gets invited to a ball, and she throws

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