Thierry Paré Seyyedesaghar Najafi 604-102-MQ 23th October, 2017 The Lottery The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson and published in 1948, tells the story of a yearly celebration that consists of stoning one randomly chosen person to death. Throughout the narrative, the author portrays the dominance of men over women. First of all, in this short story, there clearly is a stereotyping of the woman. Indeed, the women seem to be lumped together and all assigned to the same role. For example, they are the one who are taking care of the children (“[The women] began to call their children […]”) and the author gives them few stereotypical characteristics, like the fact that they like gossiping (“[The women] exchanged bits of gossip […]”). The