What is the simile in the short story lamb to the slaughter?

Answer 1

In the text I read I found a simile. The metaphor is "she might as well hit him with a steel club" I think the author included it because when Mary hit her husband with the lamb she hit him really hard so it was like she hit him with a club.

Answer 2

I might be 10 years late to this but the climax means when the tension between characters reaches its highest point. I'd believe the climax of this text would be when Mary hits and kills Patrick (husband) with a leg of lamb.

Answer 3

The climax of "Lamb to the Slaughter" is when the police officers eat the lamb and don't that they are actually eating the murder weapon. This would be the best answer for the climax. But their is another climax, which is when Mary killed her husband. But that can also be part of the rising action.

Answer 4

Lamb to the Slaughter is written in thrid person limited omniscient point of view

Dahl grants the point of view to Mary, the protagonist. Right away, readers see the scene through Mary's eyes. The warmth and cleanliness, the punctilious ordiliness, of the living room where Mary awaits Patrick reflect Mary's conviction, soon to be shattered, that she has built a comfortable and even beautiful life. In Patrick's case, Dahl communicates indirectly by gesture. Mary greets Patrick with a "Hullo, Darling," while Patrick responds with a "hullo" only, omitting the endearment. He drinks his evening scotch and soda more quickly than usual and resists Mary's efforts to wait on him; he fails to respond to Mary's conversation. Readers see these things more or less as Mary sees them, although they likely interpret them more quickly than she does as signs of his dissatisfaction with his marriage. After the killing, Mary changes. No longer the ornament of a contented setting, she becomes the calculator of her own survival, and that of her unborn child. As Dahl writes, Mary's mind suddenly clears; she begins to dispose of evidence, and she sits in front of her dresser-mirror rehearsing a normal conversation with her grocer. When she returns home, having founded her alibi, she views the body of her husband as if for the first time, and readers, too, get a newish view of it, described much more grotesquely, with greater and more poignant detail, than previously. In these two contrasting scenes of the death, Dahl completes the transformation of his central character

Answer 5

It could be described as somber, perhaps a bit gloomy. However, the argument could be made that the mood is more reflective.

Answer 6

"...almost as a sunbather feels the sun..."

Answer 7

mood and suspense

Answer 8

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