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WorksheetShort Story Analysis Worksheet
Title of short story Lamb to the slaughter
Author’s Name Roald Dahl
Year of Publication 1953
Physical: Place & Time Place: A small town in America in the
(include clues which help Malony estate
you determine this)
Time: at night, around the 1950’s
Setting
Social Context Patriarchal society in which divorce isn’t an
(include clues which help option for women and is looked upon with
you determine this)
shame.
Characters & character Mary Malony
type Dynamic round anti-hero sympathetic
(Round/flat protagonist
/static/dynamic/
Patrick Malony
stereotypical/anti-hero/etc.
Static unsympathetic flatcharacter
Sergeant Jack Noonan
Static flat character (Foil to Patrick)
Grocer Sam
Main character
Static minor flatcharacter
O’Malley
Static minor flatcharacter
Direct characterizations Mary Malony: p.1
(Which direct - Slow smiling air about her
characterizations can you
- Wonderful translucent quality, thanks
locate in the story?)
to her pregnancy of 6 months
- Soft mouth
- New placid look in her eyes which
made them seem larger and darker
then before
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