Who the "real lamb" is.

Who was the real lamb in the story "Lamb to the Slaughter"? If you view it from all angles you will realise that actually everything main character in the story is the lamb. All of them can be lambs, but I feel that the person who can best suit the title of the lamb is the baby still in his mother's womb.

Firstly, lets talk about Mr Patrick Maloney.
Mr Maloney can actually be the lamb due to the fact that he was murdered for his innocence. He was just standing by the side of the window without knowing that Mrs Maloney was actually carrying a lamb and advancing towards him having an intention to kill him using the lamb leg in her hand. He can be a lamb, but his level of "lambness" is not high enough.

Secondly, lets talk about Mrs Patrick Maloney.
Why do i say that she is the lamb? Reason is, Mr Maloney had told her many things that hurt her deeply. Mr Maloney is also being insensitive towards her feeling resulting his wife to kill him. She also killed Mr Maloney on her act of impulse, because she was probably mentally unstable at that point of time as she was informed of the traumatizing news. Although she was hurt deeply, she did not lose her thinking skills, as she created a perfect alibi to escape the laws. Well anyway, she had a higher level of "lambness" than her husband.

Thirdly, its the policemen that came to investigate this case.
They end up eating the only evidence of the person who killed Mr Maloney, which is Mrs Maloney. They are the real lamb because they were tricked by Mrs Maloney to eat up the lamb leg which was the only key to unlock the murder case. They were fooled by her and I think they can be the lamb. They were the one who can investigate and crack this case open but in the end they were stuck and i think the case will be closed. So hence, they have a higher level of "lambness" than Mrs Maloney, but the title eventually was awarded to the baby in my opinion.

Lastly, the baby as the lamb.
The reason is that he was still unborn and he had already lost his father. When he was born and more knowledgeable and can understand things well, he will know abour the tragic incident that had happened to his father. This will hurt him and he may become mentally unstable as to why this had happened and he will keep on questioning himself why this had happened and so on. So i think that he is the most suitable person to win the championship of being the lamb.