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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Shirley Jackson’s stories “The Lottery” and “After You, My Dear Alphonse.” No additional sources cited.
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people, yet also people stuck in their simple mentality that did not allow for evolution or enlightened thought. They were simple people, and often symbolic of the continuing ignorance that
often plagues society. The following paper compares and contrasts the setting, characters, morals, and symbolism found in Jacksons short stories "The Lottery" and "After You, My Dear Alphonse." Shirley
Jackson Stories The settings in both the stories under examination seem relatively similar in that they are almost country like settings. In "After You, My Dear Alphonse" the mother is
offering gingerbread, a very country food, and in "The Lottery" we are presented with a setting of a humble and country community. The settings, though one is offered outside and
the other within a kitchen, have foundations of a country like setting and thus are similar, while different. The settings are also similar in that the women are presented
as those who are generally the caretakers and homemakers of the society, thus presenting us with a social setting that is similar. We see this in the fact that one
woman, in "The Lottery," "dried her hands on her apron" and the mother in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" the mother "the gingerbread out of the oven" both displaying clear
domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are only three. "The Lottery" takes place with the
community, the entire community, going to the lottery while "After You, My Dear Alphonse" only has the mother, the son, and the sons friend. The characters, however, are relatively simple,
as mentioned, and seem like country folk. In "After You, My Dear Alphonse" we get this impression because the mother assumes that the colored boy is poor and his parents
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