Chapter Summary: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery” 1.The dark ending was not a typically lottery but throughout the story methods of foreshadowing was used by the author, Shirley Jackson. Characters throughout the story fear the lottery nervously but the dark suspicions are confirmed when “Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!"”(Jackson 5). Tessie instead of being excited for winning the lottery is extremely against winning which confirms that the lottery is nothing to be excited about. Jackson begins the story picturing the town as a the children were playing around as if nothing horrible was about to happen.

2.The setting is a simple small village during the summer time. Summer is typically full of life with plants and flowering typically seen during the season. The ending does not fit the setting as typically small villages grow bonds with their neighbors and not stone their neighbor to death due to losing the lottery. The season full of life brings joy to the time of place the lottery takes place but ends up with the opposite of life, death.
The characters at the end once the tension is over all act as one and begin to stone Tessie Hutchinson. Tessie Hutchinson was singled out as the winner as she challenged the tradition that has been going on for quite some time as Old Man Warner has been in the lottery seventy seven times. Tessie challenging the tradition forced her neighbors to choose her as the winner as the tradition has taken many lives throughout the years and they can not be regretted thus the tradition must