Use Of Foreshadowing In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery
In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to clue at what happens at the end of the story which is, Mrs.Hutchinson gets stoned. For example, Shirley Jackson starts to give us little hints throughout the story. For instance, when the town people were getting ready for the lottery,“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”(Jackson) This quotation displays that Bobby Martin was using foreshadowing to hint at what the lottery really was. The part where Bobby Martin stocked his pockets full of stones sounded fluky. Therefore, Jackson was using foreshadowing. Jackson’s use of foreshadowing in “The Lottery’’contributes to the story in that, in the beginning, Bobby Martin was putting stones in his pocket which