Lamb To The Slaughter Comparison

Have you ever seen someone killed with a lamb leg? Neither have I. “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is the obvious choice for a movie adaptation. “Lamb to the Slaughter” will make a better and more enjoyable movie adaptation Than “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, because “Lamb to the Slaughter” has a well developed main character, room for a sequel, and is a much longer story. “Lamb to the Slaughter” has a well-developed character that can and will be explored in a movie adaptation which is not present in the story “The Dinner Party”. The first piece of information we have about a character in the story is the second paragraph in the story where it states “Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work” (Dahl 1). From this sentence, we can infer that the character is female and married. We also learn that Mary is six months pregnant from the third paragraph which states “Her skin -for this was her sixth month with child…darker than before” (Dahl 1)
This sentence also explains the reason Mary was waiting for her husband to come home is because she is a stay at home wife while she is pregnant.
On the other side, the story “The Dinner Party” has no developed characters and no names of characters until the second to last
“Lamb to the Slaughter” is a four page double-sided story that is very descriptive “The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite” (Dahl 1). The story “Lamb to the Slaughter” is 3,607 words long, four pages, double sided, and is full with plenty of character dialogue and descriptive paragraphs explaining the setting and emotion for each scene in the story. This is another reason why the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” would make a better movie adaptation than the short story “The Dinner