When a writer composes a short story, some may have a meaning and others may

not. With the ones that have a purpose, it is usually a very profound, easily understood

meaning that is developed within them. The quote is taken from Shirley Jackson’s, The

Lottery, which is one short story the has a very difficult meaning to be understood . From

this one quote alone, a person should be able to tell that this story is supposed to show

what is right and what is wrong. It is with this in mind that Jackson writes the story to

Shirley Jackson was born December 14, 1919 in San Francisco, California (About

Jackson 2). She lived in San Francisco for twenty-one years until she entered Syracuse

University (Bentley 1). While attending Syracuse, she met and married Stanley Edgar

Hyman, who ironically was a critic that later became her editor(Bentley 1). The Lottery

was written in 1948, seven years after Shirley Jackson wrote her first short story, My Life

with RH Macy (About Jackson 2). She then went on to write The Road Through the

Wall, The Hangsaman, Life Among the S

subconscious fear that if they resist they might be selected in the next lottery (Kosenko

trying to depict the horrible secret which show the hidden horrors in our daily life

children Nancy, Bill Jr., and Dave(Lottery 2). He put the slips into the box and had them

theirs at the same time and laughed because they were both blank (Lottery 2). Bill

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