Key Quotes - The Lottery

Key Quotes - The Lottery the black box in the lottery OPENING THE BLACK BOX by RACHEL STEVENSON ~ Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery', first published in 1948 in The New Yorker, is rich in meaning the lottery ending The postmaster, Mr Graves, followed him, carrying a three-legged stool, and the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr Summers set the black box

the lottery ending The black box is the central symbol of the short story It suggests both death and necessity of change due to a combination of the passage of time and

the national lottery tonight During this day, villagers will amass in the town square for the yearly lottery, which lasts for about two hours Jackson's narrator compares Summers Readers may find that the addition of murder makes the lottery quite different from a square dance, but the villagers and the narrator