Lamb To The Slaughter And The Landlady Analysis

In the stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Lamb to the Slaughter”, and “The Landlady” there are creepy murders that killed people. The murders all had different ways of committing the crime, from planning it for weeks or to just a sudden outburst of passion that caused it. Even though all of the murderers were very vicious and frightening, the landlady was the most vicious because of how she knew the man was coming and had everything set up for the victim. The three murderers are Mary Maloney from “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the mad man narrator from “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and the landlady from “The Landlady”.
Mary Maloney was not as cruel and cool blooded as the other two murderers, but she did kill someone and is a murderer. Her murder was a

crime of passion. When her husband told her she was leaving him, “She swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.” Mary Maloney was mad that her husband was leaving her, making her emotions get the best of her and hitting and killing him, but Mary Maloney didn’t show any remorse after her husband died, she quickly planned how she would avoid getting caught by the police.
The mad man narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is very crazy and cruel. He waited for a week waiting to kill an old man because he had a vulture eye that the narrator didn’t like. When the mad man saw the old man’s vulture eye in the middle of the night, “I (he) dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him.” He carefully did everything for the murder, but he ended up getting caught by the police when he thought he heard the old man’s heart beating driving him crazy. The mad man narrator may have been very crazy and mad, but he was not as scary and mad as the landlady.
The landlady is the most vicious murderers from the three stories.

She plotted her plan to kill the young man right after he got off the train and had everything set up exactly the way she wanted it to be for him before he even knocked on the door. She was very creepy in the way she talked and also she had a stuffed dog and parrot in the hotel. She only had two guests before him from a few years ago, but she said the men were still there in the third floor. The landlady gave him some tea that the victim said, “The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it.” The bitter almond taste in things is very poisonous and is what caused him to die in the story. The landlady then will stuff the young man just like she did with the other two men, showing no remorse, doing it just for sport. The landlady is a very eerie and harsh killer, faking the reader into thinking she is a real nice and sweet lady when she really is a cold blooded killer who stuffs people.
The three murderers in the stories are all spine-chilling assassins. The killers show no sorrow for the deeds they have done. The authors provoke the readers into thinking the landlady and Mary Maloney are sweet, nice ladies, but they turn out to be hair-raising slaughterers. Readers who read “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Lamb to the Slaughter”, and “The Landlady” will be scared by the creepiness of the murderers and might have nightmares for weeks. So look around and be alert, because a murderer might be behind

you waiting for the right moment and carefully planning.