In '' The Lottery'' by Shirley Jackson, she uses Feminist Criticism, which is the theory of identifying and analyzing how women are viewed in literature and modern culture. While also identifying examples of misogyny in literature, and considering how would gender reversal effect the story, or the subject of the discussion. Feminist Criticism is also concerned with marginalization or mistreatment of female writers from the traditional literature. I think Feminist Criticism is relevant to Jackson's story because there are a few instances of misogyny throughout the story. She uses an example of how women are undermined in the story when she writes about how Mrs, Dunbar wanted to draw the lottery for her husband, but Mr. Summer stops her and ask
