Before, I did mention I enjoyed reading short stories. There aren't many books with short stories today and for a long time, I heard about The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, which is one of the reasons why I had been looking high and low for this collection. There are 24 short stories altogether and to...
The Lottery and Other Stories is an uneven collection. If you've read any of my reviews about a collection of short stories, you've probably heard this before. “Uneven” sums up my feelings for every short story collection I've ever read. There are different levels of uneven, but it's only natural th...
Please note that I gave this book 3.5 stars, however, I rounded it up to 4 stars on Goodreads.Although I liked this collection of short stories, I am not going to lie, I was pretty disappointed that they were not horror stories. And I am even puzzled at people claiming these are Gothic stories too.S...
THE LOTTERY SHORT STORY REVIEW - Love it or hate it, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is indelibly etched on the American subconscious. It’s on every high school and college reading list. When it first appeared in The New Yorker in June of 1948, the magazine received an onslaught of complaint letters a...
I think I was expecting these stories to read more like The Lottery, which I read in school and quite enjoyed. Unfortunately, they didn't, or at least not in the same way I had hoped. They shared a rather gloomy outlook on life with The Lottery, certainly, but that was kind of the defining factor....
First published in 1948 in the New Yorker, The Lottery is a brilliantly written allegory about society, conformity and tradition. The very short story (32 pages) follows a small village as they gather for their annual lottery, each person taking a slip of paper from a box where the winner will be th...
This short story holds a barren coldness and a detached feeling that only a well skilled author could fathom up. The small page numbers don’t detract from character development, and in fact, they are expertly tuned and refined, and are differentiated from each other. This short and sweet, pushes t...
When you look at the list of the 20 best short stories ever written, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is on most lists. My goal this year is to read all of the great short story ever written. By the way I detest short stories. I get it…this story was well done. Jackson skirted between haunting and simp...
I--The Intoxicated--The Daemon Lover--Like Mother Used To Make--Trial By Combat--The Villager--My Life With R. H. MacyII--The Witch--The Renegade--After You, My Dear Alphonse--Charles--Afternoon In Linen--Flower Garden--Dorothy And My Grandmother And The SailorsIII--Colloquy--Elizabeth--A Fine Old F...
This is a collection of short stories that run the spectrum of emotions for me, but this review is about "The Lottery". I have read this 3 different times in my life, and knowing the ending doesn't make it any easier to read. This story is about tradition, and what can happen when people blindly f...
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