The similarities and differences between Lamb to the slaughter and The way up to heaven

Sadly again, I have been given another LA assignment to do and must blog about it in order to get ACE points.So please bear with me and I will be putting up a new post some time today.In addition, please give me more comments so that I will get more ACE points or else i would not be able to fulfil the requirements.
The two stories that I will blogging about today is Lamb to the slaughter and The way up to heaven which are both written by the famous Roald Dahl(favourite author of many people when they were still young)
The similarities are that in the end both husbands die.The similarities of the two stories is that both have the same theme which is lying and deception. Both is about the wife killing their husband whether directly or indirectly. I will start with a brief introduction to Lamb to the slaughter.
Mary Maloney is the wife of Patrick Maloney.Mary Maloney is a good housekeeper and keeps the house very clean.She always does as per what her husband askes her to do what and she is willing to do anything to please him.Patrick Maloney is probably caring and takes his wife out every Thursday. He is probably treating Mary well as Mary is deeply in love with him and enjoys the quiet moments in which they share together the most.She feels that her life is very contented and very peaceful. His wife, Mary is totally in love with her husband and he awaits his return from work every evening .She prepares whisky for her husband to drink when he came home. When he returned, Mary enjoyed his company and the presence of him feel almost like a sunbather feels the Sun. When Patrick told Mary that he wanted to leave her probably for another woman , she could not believe it and she was angered by her husband's decision and made a drastic move to the extent of using a leg of lamb to murder him.She uses the same amount of care and planing to carry out the murder as she used to take care of the house. She did not even feel regretful or guilty at all for the drastic move in which she had made. She was completely emotionless after what she has done.Based on her outer appearence and actions, she seems like the kind of woman that will be easily contented as long as er husband treats her well.But under all that layers of skin, she is actually someone who is rather emotionless and scheming.I believe that she need not go to the extent of killing Patrick Maloney as in the process she has made their child fartherless and the child will be very sad when he/she finds out that his/her own mother murdered someone.That is why as the saying goes"Never judge a book by its cover".
The brief summary of Way up to heaven is about two people, Mr and Mrs Foster. The live in a old gloomy house in New York and had few visitors. Mrs Foster is a person who dreads being late,gets nervous at the thought of being late and will be unable to sit down and keep still.she will start to flutter and fidget from room to room.Mr Foster likes to irritate Mrs Foster by trying to delay her from going to somewhere as much as possible and by keeping her waiting, he seems to enjoy how anxious she gets when she is nervous.One January morning, Mrs Foster was going to France to visit her daughter and grand children. Mr Foster took his own sweet time to come out of the house and tried all sorts of methods and ways to delay Mrs Foster. When they were in the car, Mr Foster suddenly said that he could not find a present for his daughter and went into the house again to find it. Mrs Foster then notices the present was tucked down the side of the car seat.
She then decided to go into the house to inform Mr Foster but when she went in, she heard the noise of the lift not working and was now stuck in betwwen the two floors. Upon hearing that , she stops and closed the door. In the end,she manages to catch the plane and went to France to visit her daughter to spend some quality time with her daughter and grandchildren without a care in the world.It was as if she was like a bird that had been trapped in a cage for ages and finally set free.
Six weeks later, she returns to her house only to find that something smelled a little funny. She walked swiftly around the house appearing to be investigating something and then confirmed it. Obviously, she knew that her husband had died in the lift as he was being trapped in the lift six weeks ago and the strange smell must have came from his body in which was most probably rotting or decomposing.From my point of view,I think she seems rather happy as the death of her husband has stopped all the delaying which her husband does and(I think) she will bacome less paranoid.
The difference about the story is that Mary Maloney was only tortured by her husband for a few minutes before she killing him with a leg of lamb while Mrs Foster allowed her husband suffer the torture and misery that he had experienced while he was being trapped in the lift for six weeks.
In my opinion, I think that Mrs Foster's case of murdering her husband was more cruel in a way that her husband died a little by little, and will feel that his strenght is ebbing away with every passing second in which he is trapped in the lift. While in Mary Maloney's case, she kill him in less than a few seconds. This means that Mr Foster was left trapped in the lift for at least a few days in the lift without food and water and eventually died due to the lack of things which humans require in order to survive.
The similarity on the theme, lying and deception means that Mr Foster lied about the fact that he did not bring the present for his daughter and in Lamb to the slaughter, the part on deception is that the character of Patrick Maloney.Mary Maloney and Mrs Foster changed from the beginning to the end of the story.These are two woman which I would never want to meet cause my life would gone in a matter of minutes.