Literary Analysis of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Although several(prenominal) themes exist in the Lottery, only a few remain significant. Mrs. Hutchinson, who on the face of it arrived just moments after 10 A. M. , ended up as the not so lucky person that received the unforgiving dot on her ticket. Clean forgot what sidereal day it was.. and thence I looked out(p) the window and the kids was gone, and then I remembered it was the twenty-s tear d avouchth and came a-running (Jackson 3). She simply forgot the special event that took place that day and did postal code wrong. Never in the tale did Shirley Jackson hint that Mrs. Hutchinson reeked of villainy however, she was punished brutally for no just picking a head trip of paper out of some old, black case. Anyone in this small town, even the children, have the same chance of becoming the one murder victim. Nancy was twelve, and her schooldays friends breathed heavily as she went forward switching her skirt, and took a fall asleep daintily from the box (5). This goes for A mericas society where any haphazard person can be jailed or accused of something they were wrong accused for.Society punishes innocent citizens based on faulty accusations or just because they resemble an estranged serial killer. As soon as the news goes public, friends and even family members disown the criminal just like in the drawing where all of Mrs. Hutchinsons friends turned on her. Mr. Summers, who interacted with Mrs. Hutchinson earlier, in a friendly manner, . and Mr. Summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully. Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie (2) completely turned on Mrs. Hutchinson by the end of the story both right, folks.Lets finish quickly. Even Mrs. Hutchinsons own family turned on her. The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles (6). To the whole population of the village, the draftsmanship was a ritual that had became a huge aspect of the villagers lives and thought nothing of it. Just l ike Americans conduct football as the countries favorite sport and Spainards accept bullfighting as a ritual, the villagers sure the lottery. The author describes the black box, in which the slips rest in. The black box grew shabbier from each one year by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the skipper wood color, and in some places faded or stained (1). However, the villagers refused to accept change and kept the same black box because it was a ritual for as long as they recall. The line from the story The people had do it so many times that they only have listened to the directions (3), illustrates how the lottery actually filled out the word ritual. The villagers claim the black box was made from pieces of an older black box from many years ago. use stones and making family lists has been around for so long that they are part of a tradition, and no one ever wants to break a tradition. The actual lottery symbolizes irony. A lotte ry usually happens when a ticket is selected at hit-or-miss and whoever has the ticket receives a nice or in some cases, an exceedingly wonderful sum of money. In the Lottery, however, everyone dooms the day when they win this lottery because their own people murder them. Although not so obvious, foreshadowing is used in the Lottery by Shirley Jackson.At the beginning of the story, the seemingly innocent children dramatic play with stones Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothes and roundest stones (1). Shirley Jackson presented the stones early in the story, but stones acted like a method of play until the end of the story where Mrs. Hutchinson was attacked by stones It isnt fair she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head (6). Shirley Jackson keeps the audience intrigued by dragging out the results of the lottery until the very end where the real use of the stones are mentioned.