Lamb to the Slaughter | Characters
None of the characters is developed to a great degree. This is typical of a Dahl suspense story; the characters are developed only enough to move the plot along. For instance, Mary is a stereotype, with few distinguishing characteristics. She is the ideal housewife, serving her man and loving it. This stereotype is all the reader really needs to understand for the story's situation to be meaningful. Mary is nearly perfect, so when her husband dumps her, he seems a scoundrel. Her husband Patrick is hardly developed at all. He is shown to be wrestling with how to tell Mary that he wants their...
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