What I found most compelling about short stories is that the readers are never truly at the beginning a story, they are just magically put into a scene. Furthermore, the authors have very few characters, the plots are not so complex and narrative is concise. The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is a captivating read because the story kept me absorb into what was happening. I loved how Jackson used actions instead of heavy dialogue in the story to give the readers information about the characters, for example, when Tessie Hutchinson arrives late to the lottery, she enters loud and frazzled, unlike the others who are very clam and always arrive early. Jackson also uses heavy description, for instance, the text stated “The morning of June