SOURCE: “Jackson's ‘The Lottery,’” in The Explicator, Vol. 52, No. 4, Summer, 1994, pp. 242-245.
In the following essay, Yarmove analyzes the meanings of names and dates in “The Lottery,” concluding that the story is designed to challenge the complacency of readers who believe a holocaust could never happen in contemporary America.
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