Abuse survivors hoping for Cardinal Pell to lead change in culture

Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery caused an uproar in 1948 and the cancellation of many subscriptions to The New Yorker. Readers were puzzled and appalled by a work of fiction that depicted ordinary people in a sleepy midwest town as a mob that would ritually stone an innocent girl to death. Of the 300 letters written to Jackson about her short story, only 13 were kind, and those were chiefly from friends.
What most stands out in this tale of man’s inhumanity to man is the sheer randomness of the violence. In the story, the girl protests her death, not because of the process by which she was chosen, but simply with a special plea that they should have singled out somebody else.

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