Who Is Tessie Hutchinson In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Character Analysis In the beginning of the story the Lottery. Shirley Jackson gave the reader intention that this story is going to be about someone winning the lottery. At least that what I thought it was going to be about, but come to find out it was about someone being a human sacrifice. The character that I took interest in is Tessie Hutchinson. She is the wife of Bill Hutchinson and a mom of four. In the story, the Lottery Tessie was on that I was focusing on what was going to happen to her. Tessie Hutchinson is a housewife, who arrives late, and is an outspoken character. According to the Lottery Tessie Hutchinson is the wife of Bill Hutchinson She has four children Nancy, Bill Jr, and Dave. One of those children is Eva she is married to Don. Like every other wife Tessie Hutchinson stays at home taking care of the

Tessie did not like that it was someone in her family that would soon have to be stone. The author wrote in the story as Mr. summer began to call all the villagers by the last name to pick a slip of paper from the black box. Shirley Jackson mention, Tessie was shouting “you didn’t give him enough time to take the paper he wanted I saw.” (Jackson 143) The author gave reader a sense that it was going to be Bill that was going to be the person that was going to be the human sacrifice, the whole time the Lottery was taken place Tessie was okay with who would get the lottery that year. She did not expect it to be someone in her family. That when she became very outspoken about the fact that it was someone in her family. In the story, the author mentions that after Tessie ask for redo it was the choice of her family that had to pick the slip of paper. After she did all the talking and saying it was not fair. Tessie was the one who drew the black dot and she was the one who was going to be in the