“The Lottery”
“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 . . .
in the community has been accepted as condonable in the name of sacrifice. Tessie Hutchinson appeared late to the lottery and the crowd addresses Bill with “here comes your missus, Hutchinson (Jackson 783). “The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles (Jackson 787). “The girls stood aside…looking over their shoulders at the boys (Jackson 781). Summer’s reply infers that Eva belongs to Don because " Daughters draw for their husbands' families. Woman as an inferior is a concealed theme in “The Lottery”.
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