The Lottery Questions
1. Acorrding to multiple sources, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson recieved very bad reviews. This short story was published in the New Yorker, and was read by thousands of people. Shirley Jackson recieve 300 letters in two months,in which only 13 were positive. Even her parents didn’t support her story. So why would it recieve such bad reviews? Well, acording to the New Yorker’s response to some complaints: “Miss Jackson’s story can be interpreted in half a dozen different ways. It’s just a fable.… She has chosen a nameless little village to show, in microcosm, how the forces of belligerence, persecution, and vindictiveness are, in mankind, endless and traditional and that their targets are chosen without reason.” I think …show more content…
When asked about the meaning of the story, Shirley Jacson said “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.” What I think she means by this is that she wanted to discourage people from unecessary violence, even though it sparked harsh words an …show more content…
Tessie hutchinson learns this in the endof the story by standing up for her husband, but getting murderd by her family and freinds. In this story the crowd is everyone but the person who wins the lottery. Old man Watson calls the other towns that stopped doing the lottery a “pack of crazy fools.” He is critisizing all the other towns that stood up against the crowd. I think that old man Watson might be part of the crowdbecause he is older and wants to stick with traditions. Also he might want to stick with the crowd because there is strength in numbers. I think the purpose of The Lottery is that it was used to scare the people of the town so that they wouldn’t be individuals, and so that they would stick together in a pack (crowd). This would make sense because the people of the town weren’t their own individuals, but they were part of the steriotype of that
1. Acorrding to multiple sources, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson recieved very bad reviews. This short story was published in the New Yorker, and was read by thousands of people. Shirley Jackson recieve 300 letters in two months,in which only 13 were positive. Even her parents didn’t support her story. So why would it recieve such bad reviews? Well, acording to the New Yorker’s response to some complaints: “Miss Jackson’s story can be interpreted in half a dozen different ways. It’s just a fable.… She has chosen a nameless little village to show, in microcosm, how the forces of belligerence, persecution, and vindictiveness are, in mankind, endless and traditional and that their targets are chosen without reason.” I think …show more content…
When asked about the meaning of the story, Shirley Jacson said “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.” What I think she means by this is that she wanted to discourage people from unecessary violence, even though it sparked harsh words an …show more content…
Tessie hutchinson learns this in the endof the story by standing up for her husband, but getting murderd by her family and freinds. In this story the crowd is everyone but the person who wins the lottery. Old man Watson calls the other towns that stopped doing the lottery a “pack of crazy fools.” He is critisizing all the other towns that stood up against the crowd. I think that old man Watson might be part of the crowdbecause he is older and wants to stick with traditions. Also he might want to stick with the crowd because there is strength in numbers. I think the purpose of The Lottery is that it was used to scare the people of the town so that they wouldn’t be individuals, and so that they would stick together in a pack (crowd). This would make sense because the people of the town weren’t their own individuals, but they were part of the steriotype of that