Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin and Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl are similar in many ways. Both have a strong female lead character who is so in love with their significant other. Both stories take unexpected dark turns and end with some irony. The sense of irony in Desiree’s Baby is at the end when Armound is reading his mother's letter, “... belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.” He got rid of his wife and child because he thought they were cursed with the slave race. The irony in Lamb To The Slaughter is when the detectives are eating the leg of lamb one says “ is probably right under our noses…” she used the leg or lamb to kill her husband. The two stories are different in the way they take their dark turn. In Desiree’s Baby her baby starts bearing the skin of a black baby. The turn the sends desiree to her death “ that the child is not white; it means that you are not white.” this then leads to them fighting and ultimately desiree’s suicide. The turn in Lamb To The Slaughter is similar but very different. We do not know what is said but only assume that Marys husband is leaving her. “Listen, he said ive got something to tell you.” not being able to handle the being apart she snaps and kills him “... she swung the big frozen leg …show more content…
Desiree gets treated differently by aromound and she writes in a letter to her mom “ i shall di i cannot be so unhappy , and live.” this later escalates to more than just words when armound tells her to leave instead of going home “ she disappeared among the reeds...sluggish bayou.”Desiree drowns herself and her baby. While mary maloney takes what we assume to be her husband leaving her “ sit down… i’ve got something to tell you… i know it’s a tough time to be telling you this.” she takes the news and in almost a trance kills her husband. Both stories kill someone but one is the main character and the other is the