TEXT OVERVIEW: “The Lottery”

Jackson's story seems to have been inspired by a typical, “all-American,” domestic situation A mother and her young child making preparations for the family's

TEXT OVERVIEW: “The Lottery” Franklin is the author of a biography of the writer Shirley Jackson On a warm, sunny June morning, village residents gather in the tranquil

Jackson's story seems to have been inspired by a typical, “all-American,” domestic situation A mother and her young child making preparations for the family's

why do you burn a card in poker 269) Being identified as the author of controversial fiction, and having readers look to her as the source of the disturbing content, had

Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that

why do poker players wear sunglasses Shirley Jackson did not write “The Lottery”, to simply expose an evil tradition carried on in a foreign land, but to expose the “evil traditions” we in the

The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 18, 1948 The story describes a fictional small