The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris | Characters
James Harris, at once a character and a symbol, is the most profound achievement of characterization in Jackson's collection of short stories, The Lottery: Or, the Adventures of fames Harris. No writer in modern literature has quite given readers in one character as eerie and yet plausible a figure of supernatural terror. His name in itself carries all the connotations of a motif. He becomes, appropriately, a name that Jackson the artist conjures by, and so the reader senses a certain weird, eerie horror from the book as a whole. Two stories where Harris plays a central role...
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