“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story portrays many underlying themes. Inequalities between gender and class, and a little sacrificial violence are deeply seeded within the story. Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” to make her readers aware of the violence, inequality of gender, and class inequity that surrounds society.

When Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” she “hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to chock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence…in their own lives. (Kosenko 1). Mrs. Delacroix, who gives the impression of being Tessie Hutchinson’s friend, “selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands (Jackson 787).” Both of the instances show that violence

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Women are considered as belongings of their husbands just as girls don’t take part in collecting stones: They are being taught to be dependent upon men (Kosenko 1). ” This is to set the pattern for depe!

ndency upon their husband throughout their life (Kosenko 1).

“The Lottery” introduces its readers to violence through seemingly upright virtuous characters. When the Hutchinson’s were asked if there were was another household within their family Tessie yelled “ There’s Don and Eva…Make them take their chance (Lottery 786). “The girls stood aside…looking over their shoulders at the boys (Jackson 781). Martin and his son Baxter step up to steady the box. Summer’s reply infers that Eva belongs to Don because " Daughters draw for their husbands' families.

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