Analysis of “The Lottery”

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The Lottery as Anachronistic

The purpose of this is to explore Shirley Jackson 's short story The Lottery . In this exploration , there will be many symbolic explained in this essay as well as slight character analysis . In relation to the them of desire , the characters will be explained in relation to their environment not just physically but emotionally and psychologically as well . In the title of this essay , the word anachronistic stands true throughout this story as the traditions practiced by

the village are outdated and the villagers still maintain these sinister but seemingly necessary traditions

Shirley Jackson 's short story The Lottery takes place in a small village during an annual event called the lottery . The story develops around the behavior and reaction of Mrs . Hutchinson . The point of the lottery to the villages is about tradition . The tradition of the black box , the folded slips of , and the oldest man in the village , Old Man Warner , states that people just aren 't the same as they used to be . In this statement , the symbolism of the lottery is revealed to be a slightly dying or changing tradition

Symbolism in The Lottery revolves around this theme of tradition Within the concept of the black box , and this annual event , the reader may see a landscape which resembles a way of thinking that has been surpassed and replaced with , what one may assume to be , a more civilized approach to society . Even within the story line , the audience is speaking about how in some villages they have been thinking about doing away with the lottery , and in other villages they don 't do it anymore at all . Thus , Mrs . Hutchinson 's cries at the close of the story may be recognized as a plea to change the tradition . The symbolism in her being late is juxtaposed with her being the one who draws the slip of with the black mark upon it . She has been black listed in a fashion , ostracized with that slip of and her penalty is the annual tradition of the town : stoned to death

The children of the story are the first introduction into the village the reader witnesses . Their activity involves collecting stones : the symbolism in this action is that the typical purpose for children to collect stones would be to throw them as skipping stones , to build something , or to do other innocent childish things with them . Instead the children , the symbol of innocence typically , are collecting the stones for further use in the story as the weapon of death for the unfortunate person who draws the black marked

The eeriness of the story is reflected in how casual the events are laid out . When Mrs . Hutchinson protests her stoning , the children , the men and the women carry on different conversations that are out of sequence with the event which is happening around them . It seems that the black box represents...