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“The Lottery and Other Stories” is a collection of short stories published in 1949 by Shirley Jackson. It is a collection of stories that show short glimpses into modern life. Twenty-Five stories are included in the collection including “The Lottery”.
Originally, Jackson toyed with the idea of naming the collection, “The Lottery”, or “The Adventures of James Harris”, since a character named James Harris (who may or may not be the same man) shows up in four different stories. Other characters named Harris, show up in an additional six stories.
Critics, Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas called the book: “a brilliant collection of naturalistic glimpses of a world with terrifying holes in it.”
“The Lottery”, the longest story in the book, has been described as one of the most famous short stories in American literature. After it was published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, subscribers had an immediate negative response to it and many canceled their subscriptions or sent hate mail to Jackson. The Union of South Africa also banned the stories publication.
“The Lottery” is about a town that gathers every year to draw lots to see which member of the town will be stoned to death.
Summary
The Intoxicated
The first story in the collection, “The Intoxicated” begins during a party in a suburban house somewhere in America. A guest wanders away from the party, ostensibly to get some air but really to sober up. He enters the kitchen where he finds the host of the party’s 17-year-old daughter, Eileen. The guest notices that Eileen is dressed down and doesn’t appear to have been at the party. She tells him that she is working on schoolwork and that she only came down to the kitchen to escape the heat upstairs.
She says that her schoolwork is a paper about the future of the world. She tells the guest that she does not believe that the world has much of a future. The guest is uncomfortable with Eileen’s earnestness and precocious attitude and, as the conversation goes on he begins to get impatient with her.
Eileen continues to talk about her version of the future of the world, which is a dystopian idea. She says that she thinks the churches will be destroyed, then the apartment buildings will slip down into the water with the people still inside. She considers whether her Latin class will be the last to enjoy the play “Caesar” before the world is destroyed. She says, in the end, there will be no houses and no schools. There will be new ways of living.
Explanation:
“The Lottery and Other Stories” is a collection of short stories published in 1949 by Shirley Jackson. It is a collection of stories that show short glimpses into modern life. Twenty-Five stories are included in the collection including “The Lottery”.
Originally, Jackson toyed with the idea of naming the collection, “The Lottery”, or “The Adventures of James Harris”, since a character named James Harris (who may or may not be the same man) shows up in four different stories. Other characters named Harris, show up in an additional six stories.
Critics, Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas called the book: “a brilliant collection of naturalistic glimpses of a world with terrifying holes in it.”
“The Lottery”, the longest story in the book, has been described as one of the most famous short stories in American literature. After it was published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, subscribers had an immediate negative response to it and many canceled their subscriptions or sent hate mail to Jackson. The Union of South Africa also banned the stories publication.
“The Lottery” is about a town that gathers every year to draw lots to see which member of the town will be stoned to death.
Summary
The Intoxicated
The first story in the collection, “The Intoxicated” begins during a party in a suburban house somewhere in America. A guest wanders away from the party, ostensibly to get some air but really to sober up. He enters the kitchen where he finds the host of the party’s 17-year-old daughter, Eileen. The guest notices that Eileen is dressed down and doesn’t appear to have been at the party. She tells him that she is working on schoolwork and that she only came down to the kitchen to escape the heat upstairs.
She says that her schoolwork is a paper about the future of the world. She tells the guest that she does not believe that the world has much of a future. The guest is uncomfortable with Eileen’s earnestness and precocious attitude and, as the conversation goes on he begins to get impatient with her.
Eileen continues to talk about her version of the future of the world, which is a dystopian idea. She says that she thinks the churches will be destroyed, then the apartment buildings will slip down into the water with the people still inside. She considers whether her Latin class will be the last to enjoy the play “Caesar” before the world is destroyed. She says, in the end, there will be no houses and no schools. There will be new ways of living.