Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Annotation Sample: The Lottery the lottery annotations annotations and footnotes, for bringing into Singled out for violent death, the victim protests not the madness of the lottery but her own bad luck the lottery essay This text is a fiction short story that challenges students' thoughts about the idea of a lottery and the connotations that come with it

the national lottery scratch card Some critics insist that the story has an added symbolic meaning Do you agree? If so, what is Shirley Jackson trying to tell us about ourselves?