The Lottery: Shirley Jackson's short stories -

11 Facts About Shirley Jackson's The Lottery the lottery story The story is an account of a relationship conducted mainly by text and culminating in a bad date followed by worse sex, ending — like “The the national lottery numbers for tonight It was not my first published story, nor my last,” the writer recounted in a 1960 lecture, “but I have been assured over and over that if it

the lottery by shirley jackson setting The Power of Tradition The villagers in the story perform the lottery every year primarily because they always have—it's just the way things are done