The Lottery

The short story of the lottery written by the Author Shirley Jackson was written in 1948 and is a very interesting piece of literature. As of all Jackson’s other stories this one is also unusual and mind boggling. Jackson as a novelist often wrote many unusual, unreal or even weird stories in her very short life span. The lottery’s unusual conclusion is one of great things about this story because the readers wanted Jackson …

…lives to tell the tale of how she was stoned. She writes this with intent for the readers to be curious and astonished that this happened to a normal housewife. Jackson uses so much foreshadowing in this story the reader should be able to pick up on the plot pretty quick. This Story’s theme is “tradition” and how it can’t be broken, but it has already been broken by all the forgotten rules.