Shirley Jackson - The Lottery

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the lodge poker club “The Lottery” is a chilling critique of societal norms and blind obedience It prompts readers to question the validity and morality of

the lottery princess The lottery exists as such a mundane ritual in their world that they can easily go back to living their lives after stoning someone to death  The event for which they gather is a lottery conducted by Mr Summers, a neatly dressed, jovial business man with a wife but no children Although many