Compare And Contrast Desiree's Baby And Lamb To The Slaughter

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Comparative Analysis Essay Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin and Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl are two fictional short stories. Although written by two different authors, both stories display remarkable similarities in the them. Each narrative conclude in a tragic way, Desiree’s baby ends in Desiree’s death and Lamb of the slaughter ends with Marry getting away with her husband’s murder.These intelligent stories portray various similarities. Each is about women who are involved in horrible actions, and are petrified to face the consequences, if discovered. Though both stories are about tragedy, each has a unique style of writing which gives the reader different thoughts and images to the fictional texts. The author of Desiree’s Baby, Chopin,

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