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The Lottery Summary & Study Guide Description
The Lottery Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Further Reading and a Free Quiz on The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
The Lottery Plot Summary
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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson opens on a warm June day in a town of about 300 people and describes an annual event in the town, a tradition that is apparently widespread among surrounding villages as well. Children arrive in the town square first and engage in "boisterous play." Some of the boys create a "great pile of stones in one comer of the square."
When the men of the village arrive they stand away from the stones, joke quietly, and smile in stead of laugh. The women arrive next. As they join their husbands, they call to their children. One mother's voice carries no weight, and it is her husband that commands Bobby Martin's attention.
The event for which they gather is a lottery conducted by Mr. Summers, a neatly dressed, jovial businessman with a wife but no children. Although many traditional customs associated with the lottery...
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