Literary Analysis of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

All villagers grab stones and run towards Tessie, who is now standing in the middle of the crowd She continues to complain about the unfairness

Shirley Jackson received over 300 letters People are not all good or all evil but a mixture of both Other ideasthemes can be applied to “The Lottery”

the deadliest game choices Shirley Jackson through a sociolinguistic model of narrative analysis that William Labov developed Although the model was initially developed

the first descendant dead bride In Shirley Jackson's short story, The Lottery, the main theme is how traditions lose their meaning due to human forgetfulness