Compare the main characters from Lamb to the Slaughter and The Tell Tale Heart.

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Both the writers in Lamb to the Slaughter and The Tell Tale Heart, show the main characters in the stories to be obsessed by their victims. In Lamb to the Slaughter the obsession is obvious straight away, but in The Tell Tale Heart the main character's obsession is not clear until later

on in the story. The writers both show obsession by their characters in the same way.

Roald Dahl, the writer of Lamb to the Slaughter, has tried to make Mary Malony's obsession with her husband clear. In the story Mary Malony acts with her husband's best interests in mind. When he gets home she is concerned for him; we know this because when she wants to cook him dinner, she keeps saying, "have something to eat." I think that she was obsessed with every detail about her life with this man. She almost lived a life of servitude. She loved to luxuriate in his presence.

We know Mary Malony is obsessed with her unknowing victim, Mr. Malony, because at the

very beginning of the story, she sets everything up so perfectly and so precisely. We know this because in the story it says