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

As soon as Jackson got home, she wrote the 3,378 words of "The Lottery." It took her just two hours, and seemed to flow out of her nearly perfect. "Except for one or two minor corrections," she remembered later, "It needed no changes." Her husband quickly recognized the story was genius, and Jackson sent it on to her editor at The New Yorker. ................
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