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Use Of Setting In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson misleads her readers at different times throughout the story The Lottery to try and make them believe the lottery is a good thing in the story. Shirley Jackson uses the setting to mislead us into thinking the story would be happy and have a cheery ending. One example in the story is when it was ¨Clear and sunny with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day, flowers were blossoming profusely¨ in the village (1). This is a misleading because when someone portrays a nice setting it usually means a happy ending whereas Shirley Jackson put a nice setting with a bad ending. In addition to the setting Shirley Jackson uses what seems to be a normal activity to trick the readers into thinking there would be a happy ending. In the town square,
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