Similarities Between A Rose For Emily And The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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The eighteen hundreds was one of many insurgent eras of time that required a lot of adaptations to millions of people's lives. Many people during this time period faced challenges that one goes through in order to steer away from losing their cultural and family traditions during the changing of these times. "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson are similar in regards to this theme, the demising of characters, and time periods, which is significant because it teaches us how both of these stories represent what the people of this time period went through and overcame.
In both stories, a character is demised at some point in the story. In “A Rose for Emily”, it is a compilation of the townspeople’s various …show more content…

Her skeleton was small and spare.”(Faulkner 1)
And also said,
“Her voice was dry and cold.”(Faulkner 1)
This woman lived most of her life in seclusion from the world, locked up in her old house, unwilling to make any contact with the outside world around her, so her appearance and voice were interesting to the townspeople. While on the other hand, “The Lottery” is a story where the town as a whole is unwilling to accept adaptations to their lives. For no other reason other than that they are afraid of change, so the town continues to put on the tradition of “the lottery”, where they annually stone one of their random citizens to death. In the story it says,
“The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock.”(Jackson 1)
The lottery in this town follows a specific process, and the start of that tradition is seen here. The villagers are very resistant to changing anything with the …show more content…

In “A Rose for Emily”, it is a time where a black woman cannot walk the streets without an apron tied around her waist. But, in her town, it changed into a place where even on the street where Emily had lived, where it once had been very exclusive, now looked intruded on and destroyed, and Emily’s house did not look pretty. This physical setting has a direct correlation to the social changes that were occurring during this time period. On the other hand, in “The Lottery”, not just one town is mentioned in the story. The author talks about the lottery in a way that seems as if he is referencing that this could occur in any town. The time of day and year, along with the weather, is described, making it feel like a positive, cheerful day. When in fact, readers are led to the opposite

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