Comparison Of A Rose For Emily And The Lottery

Settings create the whole atmosphere of the story and foreshadow events and character development. But, in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the settings of the story serve an even more special literary meaning. In A Rose for Emily William Faulkner does it by creating a house that encompasses the main characters feelings. And in The Lottery Shirley Jackson does it by creating a Town Square with an eerie feeling of impending doom. Because of the effective use of their respectable settings, these two literary works are elevated to a whole another level of literary magnificence where the reader is required to dig deeper and read the story more than once all while being entertained constantly with each reading. In The Lottery, the basic setting of the time of the day, which is early morning, and the time of the year, which is early summer, is established quickly in the story by the writer. The writer lets the reader know this by mentioning how the school has just recently ended and it's summer break, also letting the reader assume that the time of year is early summer. Shirley Jackson also seems to paint the day as a beautiful summer morning filled with light. By doing this the reader expects the story to be a …show more content…
The town of Jefferson carries this unspoken fallen legacy. The hierarchical rule of the Griersons and the class system of the time where a black woman could not even walk on the street without an apron. But this town has changed into a place where even the street on which the infamous Miss Emily lives have become filled with cotton gins and gas stations, a street which once upon a time housed the elites of the town. The townspeople hold Miss Emily to a high standard because she is the last remnant of the good old times of the town, and her life is the main focus of gossip in the