This found poem shows the main conflict of the story Lamb to The Slaughter by Roald Dahl. In the poem, the name of the killer isn’t given, but in the original story her name is Mary Maloney, who is the wife of the man she killed. She is the protagonist of this story, and she is also the antagonist. The main conflict of the story is Mary killing her husband and trying to get away with it. The main type of conflict is person v person as she has killed her husband and actively trying to fool the police. The poem leans into Mary’s plan a little bit more, and how she got away with the murder. “Down the steps, the deep freeze, a leg of lamb.” shows our protagonist (Mary) going down to the deep freeze and getting a leg of lamb. While the lamb was supposed to be for dinner, she hit her husband over the head with it and killed him, after he asked for a divorce. “The violence, the noise, the small table” shows how Mary isn’t one to be this violent, and this act of violence disturbed herself as well as the peaceful atmosphere. “She went to the phone, the number of the police, she sobbed” in the original story, she goes to the store for an alibi, and then calls the police to prevent any suspicion of her being the killer. “she sobbed” shows how she is sorry for what she’s done, and regrets it a bit. ” she said you must be hungry, eat up the lamb thats in the oven.” Mary feeds the lamb to the police to get rid of her murder weapon, and it shows that she is has come to terms that she is the murderer, and tries to get away with no charges against her. “she began to giggle” this last line of the poem represents how Mary has come to terms with her husband and how she’s proud of getting rid of any suspicion that the police might have had on her.