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Laura Sanchez
Mrs. Wolven
Eng 2
Lamb (Final Draft)
2/20/09
People Change
How do people change so suddenly sometimes? How does Mary Maloney, a perfectly happy housewife, change in a matter of seconds, in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”? After hearing her husband, a police officer, tell her that he is going to leave her, six months pregnant, she completely changes. Her first instinct is “not to believe ay of it, to reject it all. It occurred to her that perhaps he hadn’t even spoken, that she herself had imagined the whole thing” (Dahl). She walks down to the cellar and grabs something for them to eat for dinner. Grabbing the first object her hand met, she pulled out a leg of lamb. Mary walked back upstairs. This is where she began to change.
In the beginning of the story, Mary was crazy about her husband Patrick. The story talked about how she was pleased when she knew her husband was going to be home soon. She just loved sitting in silence with him......

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