Everyone, everyday developpes opinions on a wide variety of topics, situations, people and objects. In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the speaker suggests that when new perspectives surface and face judgement by society, often enough these ideas are pushed off and shunned away without a second thought, leaving the singular belief of the village. This theme is possible because of the setting in which the story takes place, a smaller more devolved society. The author also uses the conflict of Tessie Hutchinson to further prove that new ideas are usually hard to be accepted by society. Going along with Tessie there is evidence that hypocrisy play a grand role in the overall theme because when she is sentenced to death, the lottery