Roald dahl biography the landlady questions

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   How does Roald Dahl explore gender roles?

   In his stories, Dahl often casts women who appear non-threatening as femmes fatales.

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In "Lamb to the Slaughter," we meet Mary Maloney, a doting pregnant housewife who murders her husband after he tries to leave her. A similar situation occurs in "The Way Up to Heaven," as the obedient Mrs. Foster leaves her husband and races to the airport to make her flight to Paris, apparently leaving her husband to die trapped in an elevator.

In both of these instances, docile wives reassert their power through murderous means, unsettling domestic and gender roles.

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   Discuss the effects of ambiguous endings in Dahl's stories.

   Several of Dahl's stories end ambiguously, including "The Visitor," "The Landlady," and "The Way Up to Heaven." In "The Visitor," Oswald sends a mysterious box to his nephew with his collected diaries.

   In the last story in the diaries,