The Lottery

[pegkerr]

This essay here caught my eye, considering Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" as a capitalist critique. I find it kinda convincing, myself.

Discuss.

Do you remember the first time you read "The Lottery"? Did it have much of an impact on you?

Comments

[semperfiona]

I can't be sure how old I was when I first read "The Lottery"; I'm wanting to say about the fourth grade, in a Great Books reading program. But whatever my age was, the story has held a chill over me ever since.

I always interpreted it, similar to one of your other commenters, as an indictment of what people would do to follow tradition just because it was There.

In a college creative writing class I wrote a 'response' or retelling from Tessie's perspective, but sadly I have no idea where it is. I wish I knew.