The lottery
...he Halloween program-by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities (par 4). By this statement anyone can conclude that this village would not function without Mr. Summers. If the reader takes a closer look, they would see the Shirley Jackson is comparing a simple square dance to a life threatening event which is the lottery. This is a display of ridicule towards society today who takes inhuman gestures and accepts them as an everyday condition. In other words, Jackson is trying to explain that however brutal the lottery may seem, society would accept it if it was a true occasion. Towards the end of the story there is a quote which reads, It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal-company office (par 74). Although the setting makes more sense now, there is still irony within this quot...