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A 3 page paper which examines how women are portrayed in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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a symbolic story presented in a very real setting, a story that speaks of the violence people do without thought, representing the nature of humanity. It is a story that
can be well explicated from many different perspectives because of its depth. With that in mind the following paper examines how Jackson portrays women in this particular story.
Women in "The Lottery" In Jacksons story the reader is first presented with numerous men and the position of several men, prior to the arrival of women who are "housewives"
(Kosenko 27). This is evident when the narrator explains how the women were "wearing faded house dresses and sweaters" (Jackson). They also obviously "came...after their menfolk. They greeted one another
and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their husbands" (Jackson). At this point they then began to call their children to come join them. Clearly women are
secondary to men and are the simplistic vision of housewives as they come "after" the men and they are in charge of the children. They are not well dressed and
they obviously work a great deal as housewives. One critic notes that the "Power in the village.. is exclusively consolidated into the
hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in charge of things and it is only when
there is no man present in the house that the important task of pulling paper is turned over to a woman. Men are clearly the power in this society as
"Women in the village seem to be disenfranchised because male heads of households, as men in the work force, provide the link between the broader economy of the village and
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