It is seen in the story that Tessie shows resentment towards the lottery once her own life is in danger,
Conformity can make people do cruel things without reason. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” highlights a village that continues a senseless tradition of stoning the winner of a lottery. Although all the villagers initially seemed innocuous and welcoming, as soon as the winning ticket was drawn, everybody quickly turned against the winner, Mrs. Hutchinson. Through a stark, cold tone, Jackson brings attention to the dangers of unquestionable loyalty to old traditions. Jackson starts the story with antiquated characters that contribute to the blunt tone.
In the short story, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson shows the theme of The Duality of Human Nature. The character Tesse Hutchinson did not agree with “The Lottery” she thought it wasn’t fair. In the story Tesse Hutchinson husband got picked to be killed and that was when she said it wasn’t fair.
“The Lottery” mentions the black box, tradition and being nervous so much that the reader can't help but realize that that tradition is important in their community. The author uses contrast and contradiction in the story to also show that in the beginning Tessie didn't really think twice about tradition but in the end when she was in the position herself, people close to her began only then realizing that following blindly should not be the reason that you are keeping a
People present an image to the world of what they want others to see them as. This image is usually different than who they really are, but glimpses of the real person sometimes shine through in their actions. This is shown perfectly in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson when Tessie Hutchinson’s “image” gives out and everyone sees that she is a selfish person. She starts off presenting her “image” and being okay with the lottery, even joking about it, saying to her husband “You wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you Joe?”
Old Man Warner is responsible for Tessie’s death because he is an elder with a large influence on the town, but does not speak up. the idea of the lottery in his view is not a bad thing. While conversing with Mr. Adam, Old Man Warner called the people in the north “Pack of crazy fools” when Mr.Adam told him that the people in the north are considering to give up the lottery. In another event, Old man Warner tells the town “Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery… Seventy-seventh time.”
The Lottery, an established tradition that involves the sacrifice of a person is awful to the normal person. However, on judgement day, Tessie Hutchinson forgets about the ritual and instead was washing the dishes. She arrived at the practice late, not bothered about the circumstances. The town accepts the tradition, seemingly a normal practice that everyone upholds without questions. However, when Tessie was chosen, suddenly her outlook on this terrifying tradition changes.
She realizes that this is an unpleasurable and outdated tradition and should be forgotten only because she got chosen. However, if her family’s name wasn’t drawn, she would have blindly followed the ritual, thrilled to have escaped a gruesome, sacrificial death. As a reader it is easy to empathize for Tessie since she or others don’t have a voice in their community or are even able to look at the bigger picture and see that the lottery is unnecessary. Not only does the dramatic irony of the lottery allow the reader to understand Tessie’s view, it creates a similar feeling towards Bill Hutchinson. For example, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.
This is significant because it shows how loss can affect some people and influence their actions. Tessie is so against losing that it makes her have bad sportsmanship, leading her to hurt herself a little and attempt to hurt others to save herself. Tessie was willing to have her children get hurt just so she doesn’t have to, when instead she should be doing the opposite, and trying to get her kids out of that situation like any caring mother would. However, Tessie let her poor sportsmanship get in the way, leading her to embarrass herself and try to hurt her children instead of protecting them. At the end of “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson develops the theme that poor sportsmanship can cause those who lose to hurt themselves or others in the scene where after it was discovered that Bill had the marked paper, the box was emptied and refilled with enough papers for his family including one marked paper.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a fictional story that revolves around a sequence of events about an old annual tradition that ends in a human sacrifice. The plot is centered around the completion of this lottery, with the significant moment being the black dot on Tessie’s paper signaling the climax of the story: her death. The plot is structured chronologically, with the sequence of events in order of the lottery tradition. The story is organized from the initial gathering of the villagers, to the children gathering the stones, and to the process of the lottery which ended Mrs. Hutchinson's life.
So then Tessie starts to complain that the drawing was not set up properly (Jackson). In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses the symbolism, characterization, and theme to develop this short story. The symbolism of
The extreme tradition in Shirley Jackson's, "The Lottery," produces no positive difference, but rather only a negative difference. The traditional belief upheld by the agrarian village in Jackson's story is human sacrifice, which aims at satisfying their gods so that they may have a copious harvest. When the lottery session determined that Tessie Hutchinson won the lottery, she said in response, "it isn't fair." (Reading Literature and Writing Argument) Tessie believed prior to winning the lottery that she was going to lose; however, she became a victim of her overconfidence.
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is an account of a tradition gone awry. In this short story the villagers of this town have a tradition where they have a “lottery” to see who gets stoned to death. The characterization and symbolism used in the story makes the reader feel as if society has crumbled with the inhumane tradition that ultimately lost its meaning. Throughout the story, Jackson uses characterization and symbolism to imply a message to society about the meaning of tradition. Through the use of characterization and symbolism Jackson establishes that blindly following traditions can be hazardous
Protagonist Although Jackson’s “The Lottery” is filled with many different outspoken characters, she utilizes characterization to turn an ordinary housewife into the conflicted protagonist. When Tessie Hutchinson is first introduced to the reader as a flat character, Jackson describes her as just an ordinary citizen “Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly along the path to the square, her sweater thrown over her shoulders” (Jackson, 1948, para.8).
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