The Suspense of “The Lottery” “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, is a story that conveys its message through plot and detail. Suspense in “The Lottery” plays a most important role making sure that the story is well developed. The author gives a lot of detail and it seems to make the story move along slowly. But, if you read carefully her foreshadowing will hint toward her unexpected ending. As “The Lottery” develops it seems …showed first 75 words of 1087 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1087 total…or Mrs. Hutchinson getting the spot on the paper, but for some reason this is not news. If we had paid attention to the foreshadowing throughout the whole story, it would have told us all along. But since we were so caught up with the suspense of trying to figure out the story, we did not pay attention to those little details. Obviously to me, suspense was the key to the plot and the story.