Equally important, Jackson purposefully inserts incongruities within “The Lottery,” via means of irony, allowing the authors audience many opportunities to examine the true meaning of her words as the story’s events unfold. As one reflects on the title of Jackson’s story, a true sense of irony is revealed as the general population thinks of a lottery as something phenomenal and appealing, as opposed to the lottery in the author’s story which is atrocious and dreadful. Jackson describes a utopian village as she employs imagery to write the story’s setting of a “clear and sunny [day], with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green,” which ironically turns out a dystopia (250).