Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: Setting & Theme
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: Setting & Theme
Small Towns and Small Minds Small towns can be friendly; they also can be closed-minded and cruel The Lottery shows how both traits can exist in the same
Stories have competing themes and one often wins out in the end Jackson's classic story, The Lottery is a good example of this See Old Man Warner embodies this blind adherence to tradition in Jackson's story People persist in the lottery in the name of 'tradition' and in the superstitious
www.pokigames.com Their winning numbers were picked in an unusual fashion The show's character Jackie choose the three first ones because she believed those were “just standard Through the invented tradition of the lottery, Jackson explores the way mythic thinking confers arbitrary events with moral significance
