Similarities & differences between Lamb to the Slaughter and The Way Up To Heaven:

Both stories take place between couples, the female character love their husbands while the male characters show little or no love for their partners. The female characters did’t seem to care much about how their husband loved them. No matter how their husband treats them, they will still love their husband. Both women ‘ initiated’ the murder. Both women loved their husband dearly put at the conflict of the story, they changed totally and no longer loved their husband, which is a 180 degree change in their stereotypes.

In LTTS, Patrick shows no love for his wife, Mary. In The Way Up To Heaven, Mr Foster tortures his wife by making her late. Normally Mrs Foster is very obsessed on being on time, her husband forces her to be late intentionally.

Mary kills her husband in one blow, with the lamb leg. Mrs Foster tortures her husband slowly, when her husband is trapped in the life, she just left him there to die. Mary destroyed the evidence that was used to kill Patrick, in this case it was the lamb leg. Mrs Foster did not destroy any evidence as there was no evidence in the first place, her husband suffocated in the lift. In other world Mr Foster died worse than Patrick.

Patrick found a new love and that was the reason of him leaving his wife. Mr Foster just disliked his wife but did not do anything drastic. Patrick was expecting a baby in a few months, whereas Mr Foster’s children were all grown up

Personally i think that Mary Maloney was more ‘ humane’ when killing her husband as the husband died immediately on the spot and did not suffer much. For Mrs Foster i think that she made her husband pay for what he did to her. Slowly torturing her.