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Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: Symbolism In Names

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“The Lottery”; Symbolism in Names Since when does winning the lottery mean death by stoning? The lottery is something that most people dream of winning, nearly everyone wants to beat the odds and win! But, in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, this is not the case. To win the lottery in this case, as it turns out, is the last thing anyone wants. Shirley Jackson’s type of lottery, shockingly, equals a death sentence. Jackson uses symbolic names throughout the story to led us into believing this lottery is a normal lottery, with a normal outcome, only to discover the horrible truth of what Jackson's lottery actually entails. First of all, at the beginning of the story Jackson writes that the lottery is held on June the 27th. Symbolically,
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