Literature- I need your help!

[MikeMaslowski]

Originally Posted by blaise

Okay Mike, really, those stories are very short, you could have read A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Lottery by now. Two paragraphs is nothing. In A Good Man is Hard to Find the grandmother symbolizes the old way of thinking, which she romantacizes, but in reality it is as corrupt, petty, and small minded any other point in history. The Misfit symbolizes a societal misfit, but ironically, he in many ways has a more pragmatic, honest and realistic view of the world.

okay... i was listening... thanks for that breakdown...

i like the lottery, just crappy at writing the symbolism part.... i am a type of person who generally takes things for what they are worth and reading too much into it hurts my brain...