The second part of the essay was to find a(n) peer-review journal related to the short story chosen; to help strengthen the thesis point. The story I chose was “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H Lawrence, and the main theme chosen from the story was greed and want. That this greed and the need to have increasingly more is the true downfall of society. This ‘want’ that is idolized in American society puts burdens on the middle/low…
In many of her writings, Shirley Jackson uses adaptations of her life and personal journeys of alienation from a comfortable yet dysfunctional childhood, combined with the miseries of an unhealthy marriage while raising and projecting a happy family, "Life Among the Savages", which caused her devaluation by traditional male critics who had difficulty reconciling Jackson’s housewife status with her production of Gothic narratives (Hague), to the many riveting and haunting short stories, “The…