![]() One person in the community is selected by lot each summer to be publicly stoned to death. “Set in a small New England town like North Bennington, ‘The Lottery’ is about ritual sacrifice and scapegoating. Elaine Showalter describes it in A Jury of Her Peers: ![]() “The Lottery” is the story of a fictional small town that hosts a ghastly annual stoning ritual. Jackson wrote it only three weeks before its publication in the The New Yorker, “on a bright summer morning as I was pushing my daughter up the hill in her stroller.” ![]() ![]() “The Lottery” (1948) is Shirley Jackson‘s best-known short story it could be argued it’s her most famous classic - even more widely read than The Haunting of Hill Houseor We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Once published, the story quickly catapulted her to fame- or, more accurately, notoriety. ![]()
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