The Lottery is the story written by Sherly Jackson in 1948. Through this ironic short story, she takes pains to describe a village of hard-working, upstanding Americans. I will try to make you understand better this short story, through two following aspects: the setting and character. The setting set forth by Shirley Jackson in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood of peacefulness and tranquillity. The setting of this story sets up a reader to …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…in the story, all come together for the annual lottery; however, in the interesting twist, those participating stone the winner to death. . Everyone in the story seems horribly uncivilized .The People who were stoned to death represented values and good being as the townspeople, who represented society, cold-heartedly destroyed them. This setting and this character make this story so disturbing and horrifying but at the same time, the wonderful work of literature art. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**