like the truth? In Shirley Jackson's short story, ¨The Lottery¨, a normal, average village from the 1940´s has a tradition of playing the lottery, but in reality it is not about winning but about losing in order to live. In her other short story, ¨The Possibility of Evil¨, the protagonist, Miss Strangeworth, ends up being the antagonist of her town, causing the ¨evil¨ she believes she is ridding her people of. In order to make these unpredictable truths hidden in these societies, Jackson uses literary
Originally printed in the June 26, 1948 issue of The New Yorker, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” brought about controversy from the beginning. Magazine subscriptions were immediately canceled due to the outrage at the brutal underlying message. Mrs. Jackson tore down virtually every institution that American Citizens hold dear to their hearts. Jackson believes we should not just blindly follow authority or blindly partake in any traditions that we may not understand to the full extent. “Any human
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