In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", what is the meaning of Old Man Warner's quotation, "It's not the way it used to be"? What's This Mean: In her 1948 short story, "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson lures the reader in with her descr...
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. — Adam Smith 4 If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you ...
such an interesting world, and most people get so little out of it. Now there is the conversation of hens, when the hens are busy and not self-conscious; there is something fascinating about it, because the imagination may invest it with a recondite and spicy meaning; but the common talk...