[nopardons]

What's PC / lefty about " The Lottery " ? I read that, on my own, when I was quite little and liked it. I remembered it so fondly, that I reread it, when I was in high school. Shirley Jackson wrote some cutting edge stories and that's one of the best. Perhaps you don't like physcological horror stories.

[SpencerRoane]

"What's PC / lefty about " The Lottery " ? "

In the words of my favorite former President, "I'm glad you asked that question. Let me say this about that." The Lottery is a leftist novella of ideas because, although it is very well written, it denigrates the concept of tradition. It implicitly says that typical American small-town values are not based on any moral structure, but just exist because they have always existed. Now, I know that not every tradition is a good tradition. But I think that Jackson was saying a little more than that. Perhaps I am wrong. It almost never happens, but it is a remote possibility. I very much admire some of her other works, such as, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived In The Castle.