"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is an account of a foreseen yearly occasion where everyone in the entire community assembles to participate in. The author gives the impression through the happy sounding title that an occasion bringing its winner favorable luck is among the participants. As the fortune of the one picked by the lottery drawing is uncovered, it demonstrates a potential issue of the human character. Although Shirley Jackson wrote many books, children's stories and humorous pieces, she is most remembered for her story “The Lottery” (Hicks). The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson suggests freedom in a current society is traded off when power runs unchecked with a practice which denies that very philosophy. There are a …show more content…
Critics will say that the short story incorporates the stereotypical view that one sex or sexual orientation is naturally better than another. The word feminism is a cover term for a progression of movements which sought out to characterize, set up and obtain equal rights for ladies. It concentrates on the ladies issues and their issues in the general public and sets out to defeat their issues. Amid the lottery, everybody is equivalent and the community is genderless. Despite the fact that the men draw as the leader of the family, the ladies partake in the last drawing and the stoning of the chosen one. Young ladies are equivalent to young men amid this occasion. Both the young ladies and the young men stoned Mrs. Hutchinson alongside each other paying little respect to sex. The fact that none of the woman went against the men also show that there is no sexism because, by going along with the men and doing what they asked the women have shown that they are not offended. The only way that sexism can be called is if one person is offended by the act of another person being sexiest, which does not existent in the story line is. The lottery is set up to empower woman, by birthing more children, they will diminish their odds of being picked. The empowerment of the women and the equal right they have to pick a piece of paper during the drawing proves that there is no sexism in “The