(Jackson in Kosenko 1985: 27)Īlthough the author succeeded in startling the readers, the motives for portraying the American society in such a way were still unclear. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. In 1948 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle Jackson accounted for her reasons behind writing the story:Įxplaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. Those who read Jackson’s story were totally confused and unable to understand the author’s intentions. Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” was first published in the New Yorker, in 1948 and it aroused a lot of controversy among the newspaper’s readers. The Picture of Society in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
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