Over the years many critics have wrote articles on Shirley Jackson`s numerous work. Many critics had much to say about Jackson`s most famous short story, "The Lottery". Her insights and observations about man and society are disturbing; and in the case of "The Lottery," they are shocking. "The themes themselves are not new: evil cloaked in seeming good; prejudice and hypocrisy; loneliness and frustration; psychological studies of minds that have slipped the bonds of reality" (Friedman, 44) Literary critic, Elizabeth Janeway wrote that, " `The Lottery` makes its effect without having to sta…
