Essay on The Lottery and What A Thought -- Shirley Jackson Lottery Ess

Comparing The Lottery and What A Thought The miserable stories I have chosen were The Lottery and What A Thought by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is considered a morbid writer due to the fact that she writes her stories with the bearing to shock her readers into seeing the truth behind human nature. Her work deals with an darkness presence in bothday life. The Lottery is a chilling level of an everyday t ingest and their annual lottery. It shows how cruel a town sens be in protecting their tradition and rituals and how not even friendly relationship matters. The second, being found in a collection of 50 unawares stories found by and by Jacksons death, shows how quickly a wife of many days can turn on her husband without warning. Both stories contained strong vision and foreshadowing events leading up to the climax. The Lottery was written shortly after World War II, however it is unknown as to when Jackson wrote What A Thought. The Lottery and What A Thoug ht follow Shirley Jacksons usual escape of shock value. Both stories show of how quickly, no matter what length of snip people have coincided together and bonded together, one can turn on another. The Lottery showed of how a small everyday town will do anything to hold their traditional values. The town believed that they had to make a human capitulate to the land in order to have good crops. Therefore every year they held a lottery to find out who the sacrifice would be. In the story What A Thought a husband who would do dead anything to keep his wife happy was brutally scratch offed just because that is the way his wife felt on that day. These are things that tie in... ...mmer is associated with life, not death. In What A Thought the husband is almost holy. Who would ever want to kill the perfect husband? Just moments before the terrible thoughts the wife was feeling plume for her husband who never did things like sleep after dinner as most men do. How her husba nd would do anything for her and yet without wanting to kill him, she had the longing to do so. Shirley Jackson definitely can prove a point. She uses great foreshadowing, irony and symbolism shown in both of these stories. Her style is alone(predicate) to other writers but does not differ much within her own writings. The Lottery and What A Thought were very good selections for me to chose because they held great nub behind dark story lines. I look forward to course session more of her work and researching her character.