Reading and Discussion Questions on Shirley Jackson's 'The ...

It's only in the final short paragraphs of "The Lottery" that the story turns to outright horror. "The children had stones already," Jackson writes. "And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." As the stones hit Tessie, she screams "It isn't fair, it isn't right." The story ends with six infamous words: "And then they were upon her." ................
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