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Similarities Between The Lottery And The Necklace
Greg Kaspar

Compare and contrast of “The Lottery” & “The Necklace”

In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" the objects in the story all foreshadow the

story's dark undertone. But in Guy De Mauppasant's "The Necklace," Mathilde's life is

defined in the moment after the ball, when she looks in the mirror and discovers the loss

of the necklace. These stories are similar and different in many ways.

There are many comparisons between “The Lottery” and “The Necklace”. First,

In “The Lottery” when Tessi saw the black dot on her paper she looked at it like

she couldn’t believe it and she had to somehow persuade the people to not stone her to

death by re-drawing names. Just like in “The Necklace” when Mathilde lost the necklace
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