SOURCE: “A Marxist/Feminist Reading of Shirley Jackson's ‘The Lottery,’” in New Orleans Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1985, pp. 27-32.
In the following essay, Kosenko argues that the tradition of the lottery represents the inequitable stratification of the social order along lines of gender and economic position.
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