Conflict Faced in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" I feel that Shirley Jackson uses a simple story to explain how people in our society face conflict with society and with fate. Shirley Jackson was a good and very successful writer during her time. She wrote many children's books, novels, and short stories. In this paper I am going to analyze the conflict that is faced between the protagonist and society, and the conflict that the protagonist …showed first 75 words of 1099 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1099 total…is writing. Jackson wrote many stories during her career and this one was the best and the weirdest of all. Work's Cited Page About Shirley Jackson. March 5, 2002. http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Jackson/. Friedman, Lenemaja. Shirley Jackson. Twayne Publishers: Boston, 1975. Kibler, James E., Jr. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 2 ed. Detroit, Michigan: 1980. Bloom, Harold. Twentieth-Century American Literature. 1 ed. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." The Lottery and Other Stories. New York: The Noonday Press, 1991.