The Lottery Character Analysis

Many people would occasionally think winning the lottery would make them the luckiest person in the world, it is life changing but in a positive way, winning the lottery is a miracle, but not always. In this story the game is completely different, the people whom live in this village change the whole outlook of a lottery, they make it seem not a blessing or miracle but something they dread. A yearly event to all the hard workers, women, and children, such a normal thing to them. This lottery brings out who people really are and who they can be and how sick this lottery actually is. To these people all of this seems so normal and nonchalant, however they don’t realize what they are doing isn’t normal but abnormal. We will see how two characters

Hutchinson, married to Bill Hutchinson. She is simply another normal housewife, she has kids; she washes dishes, and loves her husband, she like all the others participates in the lottery. Mrs. Hutchinson otherwise known as Tessie, is late to the lottery that morning, she rushes up and explains she forgot today was the day like any normal person would. As everyone waits they make make small talk and also joke around, Mrs. Delacroix being one of them. Tessie soon finds Bill and stands at the front with her husband and kids. The lottery starts and after a few families have been called, the Hutchinsons are next. Each man of every household is supposed to walk up to the center of this circle and take a single piece of paper out of the black box. What the men and everyone else in the family will find on the piece of paper is a black spot. Everyone is soon told to open their piece of paper and nothing is found on anyone else's piece but Bill´ s. Tessie makes a scene, and this is when she shows her two sides, she goes from kind

Modern day people attach the word lucky to lottery and they all also think that all of their dreams are coming true, that it is their ¨lucky day,¨ but none of those things are true in this story. It is not anybodies lucky day, nobodies dreams are coming true, the lottery is not what we think it is. They host an event every year where everyone in the village gathers and the men of the households draw a piece of paper from the black box. What can be found on only one of the pieces of paper is a black spot that black spot determines who has ¨won¨ the lottery. The result of having the black spot is your family drawing a second time, this time someone within the family has the black spot and that is who the true winner of the lottery. Eventually everyone in the town stones that person to death and they go about their days. This is the inhumane thing about everyone in the village, especially Tessie and Mrs. Delacroix. The word tradition is what they think of when they hear ¨the lottery, ¨ and that is why they are the two that change