[감상문]The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson의 단편소설 the lottery (한글제목이 복권인가? ㅡㅡ;;) 감상문입니다.
미국에 유학중인 학생이고요 미국문학시간에 B받은 리포트입니다.
소설에서 등장하는 각종 아이템들의 실질적 의미와 소설에서의 메시지 작가의 생각과 스타일 등을 써나간 글입니다. 미국친구가 미국식표현으로 수정해준거고요 영문학과 학생들에게 조금은 도움은 되리라 믿습니다. ^^

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The history of American novels is short and lacking in quantity compared with other countries. It was surprising to find, on the internet, the number of Nobel prizes in literature awarded to authors of the United States. How can American literature, which has a really short history, receive numerous Noble prizes? Do you think it is very strange? Recently I have read “The Lottery” and thought this novel was hard to understand. I realized that these kinds of novels are based on American literature. Actually I was very shocked, after I read the story because I imagined this story was about the lottery ticket or prize and the story might be very upbeat and cheerful, but it was very sad and gloomy. The story starts like this “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” Therefore nobody could foreshadow the sad, gloomy, and scary story in this sentence, and I was also one of them.
The author, Shirley Jackson, may have wanted to depict the story’s morose and gloominess in reverse. The novel, published in 1949, is one of her most famous works along with “The Haunting of Hill House.”

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