The short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl starts with describing a good expectation of a young pregnant woman, Mary. She was waiting for her lovely husband Patrick, who was a detective in the local police.
When Patrick returned, Mary noticed that he was aloof and ignored her. When he said that he was going to leave her, the world seemed turned over. The author, Roald Dahl used tension and plot twists to keep the intrigue level up, all the way to the end of this macabre story.
The title of the story "Lamb to the Slaughter" and the plot include irony and double meaning. Readers choose who is a victim in the story, and to whom the author empathized. Who is who? - it is a reader's choice.
Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html
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