Themes in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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The Lottery In many stories, settings are constructed to help build the mood and to foreshadow things to come The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story

'The Lottery ' clearly expresses Jackson 's feelings concerning mankind?s evil nature hiding behind traditions and rituals She shows how coldness and lack of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

work out each way bet Jackson describes each aspect of the lottery with no judgement, offering information in a way that gives no indication of the dark truth of the event Even as a The story illustrates the potential for evil in the ordinary person, especially if it's carried out as part of a cherished, irrational belief