Gender in the Lottery Does gender determine your role in life? In “The Lottery," the females are viewed as modest, unimportant members of society and meek compared to the male members and even their own children. The men run the women's lives and have the final word on everything. Most of the people who are the lottery representatives are men, and they gather before the women. The men discuss significant things; things they think that the women have no business talking about. The women talk about things going on in each other’s lives. The women are not even respected by their children. The children do not listen to …show more content…
“The time period in which many of the banks did not have to issue a credit card to a single woman, even if she was married, her husband or father had to sign off on it for her, just like an underage child, would need someone to sing. As recently as the 1970s, credit cards in numerous cases were issued with only a men’s signature. In the 1970s is when it became prohibited, to decline a credit card to a woman based on their sex (McLaughlin 1).” This is similar to The Lottery, where women could not do much of anything. The men had the better of everything in this society, and women had the short end of the …show more content…
I am sure we can all think of one example right away, where gender has played a major part of our lives. I believe the townspeople would make their town a better place, by changing their traditions, to help learn from their past. This would create a brighter future for generations to come. The Roles Played by the Men and Women Portrayed In Two Short Stories by Shirley Jackson As members of society we are affected by various elements of the world around us in everything we do. The actions, attitudes, and beliefs of those who make up the population are essentially the building blocks of society. The specific roles of men and women have been debated for as long as they have existed for humans. “The Lottery” demonstrates many interesting ideas about gender roles in the small town where it takes place, and also figuratively in the culture in which we live in. “The Lottery” tells a dynamic story that can be understood to symbolize many things. Among some of the six things that are the impression that the traditional male-controlled order of the town is becoming an old and pointless way of life in this