The next symbolism in the narrative are the stones, which is used as the villagers weapon to terrorize and murder each other, Shirley Jackson describes the day of the lottery holding saying “the morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day”, “the people of the village began to gather in the square”(290).then Shirley Jackson narrates the symbol subtly narrating “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stone, and the other boys soon followed, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones”(290). the stones symbolizes death in the story and first introduced as a foreshadow in the beginning of the short story and once story goes further and then it unfolds that the stones are collected to kill whoever