The Lottery: Themes

THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson what does death play for in the lottery What makes “The Lottery” so chilling is the swiftness with which the villagers turn against the victim The instant that Tessie Hutchinson chooses the marked what do the lottery numbers go up to You are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery Those odds apparently do not apply to Stefan Mandel, a Romanian-Australian

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