![]() ![]() The concept of the lottery has a deeper symbolic meaning due to the application of the phenomenon of lottery to the killing of Mrs. People act collectively, abiding by the cruel rules of the lottery, invented long ago, and no one remembers when and why. Another interpretation of its symbolism is the injustice as tradition and long-established social order, which nobody wants to break (Turkie 15). Indeed, at the time when Shirley Jackson “published her story (three years after the end of World War II), the vicious images of destruction and mass murder were still fresh in the readers’ memory” (Ismael and Sabah 29). On the one hand, the lottery represents war and death. On the background of multiple descriptive details opening the narration, the violence of the lottery has an increased emotional impact on readers. ![]() As the title implies, the lottery is an important symbol in the story. ![]()
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