The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Character Traits

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The Lottery Character Analysis
“Sadly like many times in life, including winning the lottery, don’t always get what we wish for.” said Adele Rose. Where I come from winning the lottery means winning a lump sum of money. Yet, winning the lottery in the short story, The Lottery, means being stoned to death. The short story takes place on a nice, summer evening where the citizens are overjoyed to gather in the cities town square to take part in the lottery.
The lottery is a seventy seven year old ritual where the people use an old black box to submit slips of paper with names of heads of households, heads of families, and each family member. The lottery official has to be sworrn in by a postmaster to begin the drawing. AFter the swearing takes …show more content…

Tessie stated “ clean forgot what day it was”. Tessie’s husband Bill was the one who pulled the black dot for the lottery. Tessie commanded that the postmaster did a redrawing because her husband did not have enough time to pick the slip that he wanted to pick. Tessie told the postmaster “didn’t have time enough to take any paper he wanted”. The postmaster agreed to redraw because the first drawing took longer than expected. During the redraw Tessie wanted her kids to take their chance with herself and their father and made them redraw as well. Bill and the kids agreed to do so and their slips were taken back and added to the box. In the final drawing , Tessie ended up with the black dot slip and ended up being the lottery winner which meant she had to be stoned to death. The lottery officail tells teh rest of the people to finish quickly. The kids went first and the adults went second to pick out rtheir stones. Tessie held her hands out while the crowd surrounded here. After she was hit by the first stone she began to yell out. “ It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” Then the crowd swarmed her and began stoning her to

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