Shirley Jackson's Cruelty

I think Shirley Jackson was really thinking a lot about who we are as people and how we behave. And I feel like I often work very hard to not let my own discomfort with when I'm writing stop me from writing it. The end of the 1940s was a very strange time in America, just at the end of this war. It was a time as we were coming out of,. you know, this incredibly patriotic war thinking and war mind into the 1950s.