English-Mr and Mrs Maloney
Lamb to the slaughter:

Mr Maloney
BEFORE
He is a detective who probably care for his wife and loves her a lot. We can say that as they are almost together everyday and he takes his time off bringing his wife out for dinner every thursday.The chemistry between them is very strong and they are a happy couple.

AFTER
In the story, Mr Maloney was no more the loving husband but has a abosolute differnet personalities as compared to the starting. He bacme a cold-blooded human and did not care for anything else,including his once beloved wife, except for his work. He did not love her anymore and turns out to be callous and not bothering about her state of pregnancy. He is only concern of her not creating a big fuss out of it as it might affect his career and gave his wife a cold shoulder.


Mrs Maloney
BEFORE
At the start of the story, Mary Maloney portrayed as a loving, tidy, submissive and beautiful wife. She was almost perfect and has great housekeeping skills and to her, her husband was the most important thing in her life. She was a simple-minded, innocent lady who expects nothing much except for her husband's company and that, to her was the most blssful thing she could ever have.

AFTER
At the later part of the story, She was a short-tempered, full with rage and a person who does not want to face reality and choose to do things the hard way.She was too rash at some point of time and did not think the consequences before she react. Mary Maloney seems to be a shrewd, calculative and a great actress to fool other cops into believing that the culprit was not her. She lack of emotions and a caring heart to his husband when he died and all she cared about was how to escape the situation without getting caught. As a wife of a detective, she could plan very well how to escape the death sentence and from a innocent, submissive wife to a vicious and prepared murderer. She was a total different person from the Mary Maloney we knew from the starting.

In conclusion people face turn ugly when they are in anger.Reckless people such as Mrs Maloney was too rash and should learn to have self-control for it is not the right thing to do. Further more,she was a nice woman at first so she have good in her. I learnt a phrasein my lesson- "What lies in our power to do, it lies in our not to do" everyone has a choice- like how Mary Maloney had whether to kill her husband