Have you ever wondered what Shirley Jackson writes about? “Shirley Jackson wrote about the mundane evils hidden in everyday life” (Lethem). In the story “One Ordinary Day With Peanuts” and “The Lottery” consists with mundane evils hidden in everyday life.
In “One Ordinary Day With Peanuts” Shirley uses an irony technique. The evil that she uses is that Mr. John Phillips Johnson seems to be a really nice person. All through the story he is helping people with everything that they had problems with. All of a sudden he returns home to his wife and she says that she has been doing bad stuff all day. Then at the end John says “Want to change over tomorrow?” (Jackson). What he was referring to is that the next day he was going to be the bad guy and his wife was going to be the nice one.
Shirley wrote the story “The Lottery” after she had been pelted with stones buy some school children (Lethem). In that short story she used evil by throwing rocks at one person in a crowd who had picked the white piece of paper with a black dot on it. At the end of the story the whole crowd was standing around Mrs.Hutchinson throwing. The whole time she was screamed “It isn’t fair” (Shirley “The”). That is the most evil thing that I have ever read about.
There are a lot more short stories that Jackson has wrote, but “One Ordinary Day With Peanuts” and “The Lottery” are some good examples. Jackson and her husband wrote some of there evil stories about fictionalized memoirs of their four children (Lethem). Jackson likes to bring out the evil in every day life.
1959- Shirley dedicated her novel "The Haunting of Hill House" to Leonard Brown.
1945- Shirley was occupied with her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall.
1948- "The Lottery" was published.
1952- "The Lottery" was put on television.
1954- "The Bird's Nest" was published.
1956- "The Witchcraft of Salem Village" was published.
1957- "Raising Demons" was published.
1958- Shirley wrote the children's play "The Bad Children.
1962- "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" was finished. It was famously said of Jackson that "She never wrote a bad sentence."
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