SOURCE: “The Short Fiction,” in Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1993, pp. 3-96.
In the following essay, Hall contends that the stories in The Lottery and Other Stories, originally published as The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris, form a loosely connected larger work whose major theme is the sense in its main characters of being lost and alone.
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