The Genre Of The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” the genre is speculative fiction and starts out giving us the date, which was the 27th of June and was clear and sunny day, but also had the feel of a really hot summers day. The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The Story starts off as a normal story but progresses to be very different and unpredictable including the ending. The introduction starts out as making it sound like a normal place but as you keep on reading the story and knowledge you gain progresses and the more intriguing the story becomes. With the story progressing you want to know what goes on and its not until you keep reading that you find out that the ending isn’t as good as you would think it is.

The Genre doesn’t reflect the story in the introduction as starts off in a normal small town. Whilst the Genre is Speculative Fiction which in this genre can include horror is really found in the story as you keep on reading it and how at the end the lottery winner in affect really isn’t a winner. The story is written normally at the start and this can be found in this quote, “The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock”. This quote is at the beginning and gives the effect that everyone is keen to get to the
Instead of putting the story through one of the characters point of view in first person, which then can have thoughts or feelings, Shirley Jackson uses a third person which gives you less information that you gain as you read the story displays the procedure of everything unravelling. This then shows the peoples mannerisms like getting rocks rather than what they were thinking and feeling like how much they wouldn’t want to be there. If it came from a villagers point of view being first person it wouldn’t give the effect as what It did give from being in third