Tuesday, September 30, 2008

In the story "Lamb to the Slaughter" what do you think drove Mary to kill her husband?

56 comments:

alcalas said...

I think since she did all of this nice stuff for him and then he was going to leave her for another woman. She couldnt handle it anymore so she just killed him.

RamseyJ said...

I think Mary killed her husband because he was going to leave her, and she was mad at hiim. She didnt purposely kill him it was a accident.

Anonymous said...

He was telling her to stop. He didnt want dinner. So she got soo mad that she smacked him with a lamb leg, but i dont think she meant to kill him.

Alyssa. said...

When her husband told her that he was leaving her (supposedly for another woman) I think she kind of just went into this state of shock of some sort. She wasn't thinking about what she was doing when she got the lamb's leg out of the freezer and just struck him with it.

Dewdney said...

Mary was driven to kill her husband because of what he told her.

Mueller E. said...

The fact that she loved him so much and he was leaving her. So she went over the edge. Beware of a mad woman with a frozen leg of lamb.

Anonymous said...

I think that Mary was driven to kill her husband because she loved him so much that if he didn't love her back that he doesn't deserve to love someone else.

justme said...

For Mary to treat him with full repect and him to turn around and leave her put her in denial and she hit him on purpose just to get back at him which then ends up for her killing the man she absolutely adores.

Anonymous said...

i dont no why she killed him mabe it was kus he was gona cheat on her

curtis123 said...

She most likely did not want to face the fact that her husband did not like her anymore and wanted to leave her.

Parsons said...

I think that Mary knew that her husband was going to leave her and go with someone else to dinner. She could not handle him leaving her to go out with other friends to dinner. So she killed him.

agans21 said...

I think that her husband was going to leave her, so she killed him

SK8ER said...

I think that she told her that is wasent working out between them and he didnt want her to make dinner for them because he was leaving and wasent going to be there do she grabed the lamb leg and killed him with it witch she was planning to kill him any way when he got home she is a killer.
who kills with food and eats the evedents of gives it to some one elce to eat.

Melissa said...

I think Mary was tired of how her husband was treating her, and it was paid back for him leaving her.

bball24 said...

Her husband was being stupid and like he was about to leave and shekilled him!

kern said...

I think Mary got drove to kill her husband because she waited home for him all day from a hard days work, as she did every day and he betryed her by leavings her...:(

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tropical_skittles said...

i think he was going to dump her because he wasn't mature enough to handle a real relationship and a kid. and she loved him so much she beat him upside the head with a frozen leg of lamb

Anonymous said...

I think that she killed him because he never said thank you or he never was home; he never said that he would take a day off just to spend time together

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Anonymous said...

I think it was that he said" that he was going out.And he was not hungry.

luke said...

I agree with jeni that mary killed her husband because he was going to leave her, and was mad at him. But I dont think that it was an accident.

ackerm said...

I agree with that i also think that she didn't like the fact that Mary's husband didn't want her to make him diner at that made her mad.

Erika29 said...

I think she got so fed up with him because she would do really nice things for him like cook dinner for him. And it didn't seem like he appreciated it and he also was going to leave her.

Anonymous said...

I think once her husband said that he was leaving her (possibly for another person) she went into a form of sleep walking, but she knew what she was doing, just couldn't control what she was doing. Once she picked the lamb up she just forgot what she was doing and smacked him over the back of the head.

Anonymous said...

Mary did all these nice things for him and everyone new her as a woman with respect, I think that she felt what she was doing was a waist of time because it seemed like he didnt care what she did for him and when they had the talk she felt upset and depressed and even confused and so it drove her to kill her husband for revenge.

Anonymous said...

alcalas! i totally agree with you! but i think she shouldnt have done it well duh! but there are better ways to handle things!

Anonymous said...

Well jeni I completely disagree. I think she couldn’t have been any more deliberate then she was. She struck him in the back of the head not the back or leg. Also look at how well she covered it up almost as if it was premeditated. That goes to shows how clear she was thinking the whole time.

Goodfella_15 said...

I have to go with adam on this one. After her husband said he was leaving her, she probably just lost all conciousness and crushed his skull with a frozen piece of meat. The thing is that she wouldn't have been caught anyways because meat + human blood is almost untraceable even in our time.

Susie Bentley said...

Jeni, I think she did it on purpose. She was supposed to be the perfect housewife. She was meek, quiet, and did whatever he wanted. She sacrificed a lot of her life to please him. When he told her that he was leaving-- she lost it.

Anonymous said...

I dissagree with everyone who thinks it was an accident. I mean yeah she might have regreted it a few days later but at that time I think she really wanted to kill her husband. Everyone got the feeling that he was going to leave her maybe for someone else no one really knows. I think her reaction was just more of how she was feeling sad and emotional. I agree with dead(: haha she did a wonderful job covering it up, and the way she just laughed when the policeman were eating the lamb, obiviously she wasn't too upset.

burrito said...

I think she was mentaly ill!

Courtney's Blog said...

I think what lead her to kill him is what he wanted to do. What he wanted to do is get a divorce and to have other people take care of her and she didnt want that. She wanted him to take care of her but it was really the other way around. She was always taking care of him and he i dont think wanted that so he was getting rid of her. So she got mad and hit him acrossed the head with a piece of meat and he died right there and then and so she went to the grocery store and acted all fine and dandy so the clurk wouldnt suspect anything which is wrong she could have just had a talk with him to see what is really wrong. I just think she took a lot if it the wrong way.

Anonymous said...

I think she thought she couldn't live without him so if she wansn't going to have him no one would.

TMoore11 said...

I think he told her he was going to leave and she felt he didn't appreciate anything she had done for him.

Anonymous said...

I think she killed him because he told her some bad news and said that he could find people to take care of her. I think she was just so mad and didn't mean to kill him or want to kill him, but she just got overwhelmed and killed him.

VanCleef said...

Well I think she was just crazy
and she realized that her husband didnt like her anymore..

jstone said...

I think she killed her husband because he divorced her.

jstone said...

I agree with jeni because i don't think she ment to kill him just to hurt him.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Adam that she couldn't control what she was doing.

Jonesy55 said...

I think he said he was going to leave her so she went crazy and killed him.

Anonymous said...

I agree with alcalas.
She does all this nice stuff for her husband and when she finds out she is leaving him she couldn't think of a reason to have him leave her. So she hit him but I don't think she mean't to kill him.

Anonymous said...

I agree with dylan

Anonymous said...

I totaly agree with dead 2012 because if she did it on acident or whatever she would have called the police sooner. She wouldnt have planned it out so much if she did it on acident go dead 2012.

pigsrtiny01 said...

In my opinion she just exploded with anger.

pigsrtiny01 said...

In my opinion she just exploded with anger.

pigsrtiny01 said...

In my opinion she burst with anger.

Maddie said...

I think that she was obsessed with him, and he was going to leave her, so she decided to kill him and keep him with her forever...

II JesshikaChan II said...

I think it was that he was probably cheating on her. She was pregnant with his kid for crying out loud! If that was me...I wouldn't kill anyone...just divorce him. Child suport too. :D

Anonymous said...

whatever he toled her in the living room

Anonymous said...

I think he was cheating on her and he was going to leave her but keep it all hush-hush from the other police officers. I would be extremely mad, I mean she was 5 monthes pregnant with his child!!!, and he just wants to up and leave her... At least he SAID he was going to help her out... But would he have kept his word??

Hannah said...

I think that she killed him because he was going to leave her. She probably had lots of thoughts racing through her head and could not control them any longer. I definently do not think killing him was necessary i mean couldnt they have talked it out rather than going THAT far.

Ashley said...

I disagree with Jeni because I think she did it inentionally rather then accidently. Also, I'm assuming she did it because he said he was going to leave, & she had been a perfect wife for him, & she doesn't deserve that.

Anonymous said...

I agree and disagree with alcalas. She probably could have handled it, she just did that wrong thing to how she handled it.

II JesshikaChan II said...

I agree with tomkaulitz. XD

Anonymous said...

I think that she was mad at him for not spending enough time with her. I think she did it on purpose not an accident.