Landlady Compare Contrast Essay

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Every American student should read the “Tell Tale Heart” and “The Landlady” because they are classics and have very similar points of views. Students should also read these books because they have a jaw dropping ending that really lets your imagination run wild. Both stories have a cliffhanger at the end so you could put what your opinions are into the story. As you read these two stories you will eventually realize how they are both similar and different in many ways. This essay will include what the stories are about and also how these stories are both similar and different. This paragraph is about the story of “The Landlady” which is one of the two stories. This story is mysterious because when Billy Weaver goes to the bed and breakfast …show more content…

Some differences between the two stories are how the characters are different. In the “The Landlady” the younger man was the victim and the older women was the one who was the criminal. Also in “The Tell Tale Heart”, the criminal was a younger man and the victim was an older man. Another difference between the two stories was the reason why they were interested in murdering these people. In “The Landlady” it indicates that she wanted to kill him so she could stuff him (pg. 178). Evidence for the caretaker trying to stuff him is when he asked her about her stuffed parrot and she said that she stuffed it herself (pg. 178). Also when the caretaker said “Left?” She said, arching her brows. “But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here.” (pg. 177) In “The Tell Tale Heart” the butler wanted to kill the older man for his eye, since his eye was very different from a normal person's eye. Some other differences may be that the caretaker in “The Landlady” is more calm when trying to murder the boy since she most likely had more experience in the past. In “The Tell Tale Heart” the butler was very suspicious since his personality was more anxious than the caretaker and also the butler had probably not had any experience with murdering

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