The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

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<> has been described as “one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature”. This story, written by Shirley Jackson, begins as a sense of peaceful, it’s a beautiful summer day, as author writes “the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”, children are during their summer vacation and the villagers have begun assembling in the square to hold a lottery, so it’s unclear exactly what the prize of this lottery is going to be and this mystery persists throughout the story. Until the end of the story, Tess Hutchinson is stoned
Firstly, at the beginning, some boys (Bobby Martin, Dickie Delacroix, Harry and Bobby Jones) “assembled first, of course” and those boys have already begun collecting stones, at the end of the story there’re also a sentence to describe the behavior of those kids “The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.” It’s pretty striking how much the boys of the village tell us, not only about the nature of the lottery, but also about the raw feeling underlying this village ritual. Secondly, while the boys are the vicious, primitive spirit that drives its enjoyment, there also should have a person who stands in for tradition, the character is called old man Warner, he is the oldest man in village, always saying that “lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”, as the voice of tradition. The last character I have to mention is the victims of this time’s lottery——Mrs. Hutchinson. Her ending is stoned to death. Even though she is the victim, but we shouldn’t ignore that she try to substitute her daughter for herself, yelling “There’s Don and Eva, make them take their chance” She tries to offer up her daughter for the slaughter instead of herself, Mrs. Hutchinson is no saint,
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