The Lottery: Unveiling Hidden Meanings

The Lottery: Unveiling Hidden Meanings the lottery by shirley jackson theme So it is that the alteration of the tasks assigned to the official in charge of the lottery have made the townspeople believe they've “ the people''s lottery In her story The Lottery, Shirley Jackson implies the negative consequences of blindly following tradition through the acceptance, by the villagers, of the

the people''s lottery The narration is rather objective and without emotion this is necessary in order to create the detached reporting of this town's horrible act The detached

thenational lottery There are several possible thematic considerations that can be applied to Jackson's story The Lottery Themes such as: scapegoat, mob Shirley Jackson wrote The Lottery in 1948 to tell a story about how savage people can be for tradition The story is about a small town who has a yearly lottery