Shirley Jackson 19191965

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Shirley Jackson 1919-1965
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Theme for The Lottery Essentiall
y decent and kindly people may perform cruel,
irrational actions due to their unquestioning
acceptance of traditions and customs that have
lost their original meaning or ground for belief.
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Willa Cather 1893-1947
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Theme for Pauls Case Because the
inner beings of some people are too fragile to
carry the ever-increasing weight of what they
perceive as frightfully oppressive real world
problems, they may escape to even ultimate
fantasy world solutions for throwing it off.