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Hints of Evil: How Shirley Jackson Foreshadows the True Meaning of “The Lottery”
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Hints of Evil: How Shirley Jackson Foreshadows the True Meaning of “The Lottery”

Nearly everyone who reads Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery cannot even begin to fathom the true meaning of the lottery until it has already happened. The shock that we…
Posted by The Literary Girl November 21, 2019

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