“The Lottery” display many complexed motif in the story. Motifs are recurring things that have symbolic meaning in a story. For “The Lottery” display many complex motif in the story. Motifs are recurring things that have symbolic meaning in a story. For example one motif in “The Lottery” is family. Jackson emphasis on family to show how family can quickly turn against each other. Family was very important to the villagers. For example families stood together,wifes, husbands and children all stood present together in a group. “There were the lists to make up--of heads of families. heads of households in each family. members of each household in each family.” (Jackson). The town lottery consist of the head of the family drawing from