![]() ![]() ![]() It makes her big reveal even more brutal. Jackson paints everything leading up to that with a sense of sweetness and normalcy. What is the lottery for? Well, we don’t know until the final moments of the tale. Haunting and infinitely readable, the short story centers on a small rural village holding an annual lottery. Shirley Jackson’s deeply disturbing parable about the horrors of following orders and the darkness behind everyday American life was published on Jin The New Yorker. ![]() The Lottery begins with this idyllic description of a pastoral morning in a sun-warmed village. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock…” “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. ![]()
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