Two Needed Posts For Any LA blog (Part 2)

This is the other of the posts which I should have done earlier , but procrastinated and left undone until now .

The two stories which I am comparing this time are Lamb to the Slaughter , featured in the last post , and The Way Up To Heaven .

The Way Up To Heaven is about Mrs. Foster , who is obsessed in being on time , and Mr. Foster , who loves to torture her by making her as late as possible . It starts when Mrs. Foster wants to go for an eight-week trip to London to visit her daughter . Mr. Foster is still getting ready when Mrs. Foster is already in the car . He is in the car when he realises that he has forgotten to bring a gift he wants to give to his daughter . He hurries back into the house , but Mrs. Foster finds the gift pushed into a crack between the seats . She prepares to call Mr. Foster , but she hears a strange sound and stops to listen . She stands for a while then realises that she must not be late and hurries the driver , who is too obedient to disobey . Eight weeks later , Mrs Foster returns to find the house absolutely the same as she has left it , except for a strange pungent odour in it . She finds the elevator jammed , pointing to between the second and third floors , and calls a mechanic to fix it . But whatever happened to Mr. Foster ?

I feel that Mrs. Foster was far more torturous in killing Mr. Foster than Mary Maloney was in killing Patrick . This is because Mary killed Patrick in the space of a few seconds at most , whereas Mrs. Foster left her husband trapped in the elevator shaft for weeks , slowly dying of thirst and starvation . But Mr. Foster probably deserves this treatment , as he tortured his wife for years , whereas Patrick was a loving husband to the perfect wife until the very end . In short , THEY BOTH GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!