Outside Innocence, Inner Guilt

Most of Roald Dahl´s short stories before he started to write books for children lets us see of what the author liked to write about. A great example of his grim stories is a story titled Lamb to the Slaughter, this story tells about a little fragile woman waiting for his husband waiting to come back home. After a little, very little talking, Mary was told by his husband that he wanted to go live with another woman. Mary was in sudden shock and decided to just cook her husband some supper, by the time Mary took the lamb's leg out of the freezer she did not hesitate to smash the frozen leg directly into her husbands skull, killing him. Then she decided to call the cops and the detectives, they inspected everything and questioned Mary. But Mary was not foolish and decided to cook the evidence and serve it to the cops instead, after that, she giggled.


"And he told her. It didn't take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word." (Dahl 3),  This example draws an image in our head of how Mary feels when her husband tells her she is going away, the quote describes the sudden feeling of loss at that particular moment.

He didn't answer, so she bent her head again and went on with her sewing; bet each time he lifted the drink to his lips, she heard the ice cubes clinking against the side of the glass.  Even though she loves him, is husband seems to be not interested in her at all, then again he loves another lady.

I think that the theme in this story is that jealousy very often is life threatening and can kill, but however some people, with just a little bit of sneakyness, can get away with it.