Blog 4: Lamb to the Slaughter

The ending was ironic and clever. Irony is when the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the reader but unknown to the character. In Lamb to the Slaughter, the detectives were the unknowing as Mary giggled at their confused expressions. As they said that the culprit must be right under their noses, the "murder weapon" literally was. The moral of this story is that looks can be deceiving. One would never expect for the 1940's housewife to murder her husband who she adored so very much. Now a days, it would be impossible for her to commit her crime successfully. The technology and precautions that would be taken would eventually find her guilty.