Shirley jackson

Over the years many critics have wrote articles on Shirley Jackson`s numerous work. Many critics had much to say about Jackson`s most famous short story, "The Lottery". Her insights and observations about man and society are disturbing; and in the case of "The Lottery," they are shocking. "The themes themselves are not new: evil cloaked in seeming good; prejudice and hypocrisy; loneliness and frustration; psychological studies of minds that have slipped the bonds …

…the long-perverted ritual, to destroy the box completely-or to make, if necessary, a new one reflective of their conditions and needs of life-man will never free himself from his primitive nature and is ultimately doomed. Miss Jackson does not offer us much hope-they only talk of giving up the lottery in the north village....(107) The second work of Jackson that most literary critics comment on is her novel "We Have Always Lived in a Castle".