Delacroix In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an American novelist and also an American gothic writer. She was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. In her adolescent years, she began to write short stories and poetry. As years passed, she got older and she went off to attend the University of Rochester, but eventually withdrew within a year. Jackson didn’t give up because she later attended Syracuse University and graduated in 1940, where she obtained a bachelors degree of arts. In addition, she won a poetry contest in Syracuse and also found the love of her life, Stanley Edgar Hyman. As a result, their inevitable love was the cause for them to both move to New York’s Greenwich Village, where Jackson sustained her passion of writing. She wrote every day without

In Jackson’s “The Lottery” it said that the French meaning of the name Delacroix is “of the cross” (Jackson 247). The implication for this is that it was confabulating about sacrifice because it was a reference of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Since the town’s villagers mispronounced the name Delacroix they had to integrate both the Hebrew and Egyptians ideologies, for the reason to force them to stand in place of the pacifist sacrifice of the mass. The outcome of this tragedy was a conglomeration of elements of the lottery in which the Hebrew people chose the scapegoat. What is a scapegoat? According to “Merriam-Webster,” it is a person who is falsely accused or blamed for an incident that others have done. For example, in “Jackson’s THE LOTTERY” it said “…Jesus saved the woman taken in adultery” (Cervo 183). Jackson proposed that the aspiration of Delacroix subsidized the fact that the lottery takes place on the day of June 27. The number twenty-seven resembles the holy trinity, but it can also resemble death. In “The Lottery: Symbolic Tour de Force,” Nebeker wrote “…June 27th alerts us to the season of the summer solstice…” The number twenty-seven is a lunar symbol, which determines the light or glow in the dark. It relates back to Delacroix because the town was a traditional community that adhered to old fashion values and beliefs. Similarly, Joe Summers is characterized by his distinguished