Shirley Jackson is most famous for her short story ‘The Lottery’ and her novel ‘The Haunted House’. She has been applauded for her fresh approach towards American Gothic writing. There are many works dedicated to the gothic elements her stories contain. However, most critics overlooked the feminist elements that most of her stories have. The two short stories discussed in this essay both have female characters who are outsiders in their society. Careful examination of the protagonists’ course of action, setting, and symbolic references Shirley Jackson put in both of the stories shows that the female protagonist in both ‘The Lottery’ and ‘The Tooth should be considered as a woman with a feminist attitude towards a male-dominated society. The first short story which will be discussed is ‘The Lottery’. The second story to be discussed is ‘The Tooth’. In order to get a clear view on why these two short stories can in fact be considered stories with a feminist......

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Title: A Feministic View On Jackson’s Short Stories ‘th Lottery’ And ‘th Tooth’
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