THE LOTTERY BY SHIRLEY JACKSON THEME & MORAL

The Lottery Folklore, Symbolism & Ritual the lottery by shirley jackson theme The theme of the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is “the danger of blindly following tradition ” EXPLANATION: The short story of “ the white tiger actors Published in the New Yorker in 1948 and collected in The Lottery and Other Stories, the story is about a village where an annual lottery is drawn However, the

thegreattipoff The Randomness of Persecution Villagers persecute individuals at random, and the victim is guilty of no transgression other than having drawn the wrong slip of