The use of Irony and Foreshadowing in The Lottery “The author of several critically acclaimed novels, Jackson is best known for her psychological horror story The Lottery”(248 SSC). The setting that is given by Shirley Jackson in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood calmness and peace. This setting also creates an image in the mind of the reader. The image of typical town on a normal summer day, in June. With normal people …showed first 75 words of 1204 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1204 total…of peace and the reader was able to realate the town she was describbing to their own. Once the reader read further more into the story it became more relavent that this town was like not other but was easily mistaken for a normal town. Jackson uses this story to show people to pay more attention to detail. Just because something may seem normal and propar may not be so normal and proper after all.