Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter

The short story, ”Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and the film version directed by Alfred Hitchcock take place in America. The characters in this story are Mary and Patrick Maloney. In this story Mary gets very upset when she finds out that Patrick is going to leave her, so without thinking, she kills him with a leg of a lamb. At first she doesn’t realize what she did, but when she does, she calls the police and tries to convince herself that she didn’t do it. There are three significant differences between the text and the movie. The first difference is when Patrick tells Mary that he is going to leave. In the story we never find out what Patrick tells Mary that makes her so upset. I think in this change added to the story because it