Tess Hutchinson In The Lottery

In the story, “The Lottery,” Tessie Hutchinson is the most effective protagonis. Tessie is loyal, rebellious, and courageous. In The Lottery, they have a meeting every time the corn is harvests. At the meeting, they draw a man’s name from a box. One they draw a name from the box, the man’s family will put their name in the box as well and they will choose from that selection, and whoever was chose then would be stoned to death. The name they drew was Tessie’s. After they drew Tessie’s name, she began to behave as if they purposely chose her to get stoned. In the story, before the meeting, Tessie showed up late to the gathering. Everyone in the crowd was wondering where Tessie was when she came running out of the house and explained to everyone

that she had to finish her motherly chores. Tessie was a loyal mother and wife as you can see when she tells the crowd she had to finish doing the dishes and motherly things before she attended the meeting. In The Lottery, when Tessie was chosen, she began denying that she had was the one to be stoned. Everyone looked at Tessie and she began yelling and lose one’s temper. Tessie kept repeating how unfair it was and how they should redraw because it was not supposed to be her. After attempting to calm her down, the crowd tried to push her to the middle and convince her to let them stone her but Tessie became courageous and tried starting a counterargument and have people join her side. She tried pulling people that her against her to join her and stand up, but nobody would. Tessie was then stoned to death but showed her confidence and courageousness in the attempt to stop it. Without the protagonists effective characteristics, Tessie would not be relevant and the story would not have been big. Tessie was not only an effective protagonist but also the conflict of the story.