Shirley Jackson's implicit critique of the brutality underlying the rituals and values of America‘s small towns outraged magazine readers.Ĭont./ The anonymous, generic village in which "The Lottery" is set, in addition to the vicious twist the story gives to a common American ritual, enhance the contemporary reader's uneasy sense that the group violence in the story could be taking place anywhere and everywhere, right now. Jackson graduated from Syracuse University in 1940.īackground information: The Story "The Lottery" caused major controversy when it was first published in the Jissue of The New Yorker. 8, 1965, North Bennington, Vt.), American novelist and short-story writer best known for her story “The Lottery” (1948). National 5 Prose: Short Story ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jacksonīackground Information: The Author Shirley Jackson (born Dec.
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