lottery
The Message Sent in "The Lottery" The shock value of Shirley Jacksons "The Lottery" is not only widely known, but also widely felt. ... In "The Lottery" Jackson is making a comparison to human nature. ... This form of entertainment is displayed in "The Lottery" as the character Tessie Hutchinson is stoned in public because she won the towns annual lottery and as the character Old Man Warner claims in the story, "Theres always been a lottery" (Jackson 275). ... The townspeople harm themselves in "The Lottery" by harming another person. ... The people in "The Lottery" gain many things in this story by killing a member of their town each year. ... The towns lottery gives them something to look forward to much like the towns "square dances", "teen-age club", and "Halloween program" which are all conducted by the same member of the town, Mr. ... Summers also conducts the annual lottery. ... As Old Man Warner states in the story, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson 275). ... A final thing that the town gains from the lottery is feelings of self worth through taking out the aggression of ones own faults and sins on someone else.