Men in the society would perpetrate women’s oppression, and this was because they were insensitive to its atrocious effects. They would gain power over women, and oppressors never feel as if they have any form of privilege. In these ways, men oppress women because they are insensitive to gender discrimination. In addition to discrimination of women, nonchalant and aloof veneers are adopted when an atrophic event has never had a direct impact on an individual, and which causes inaction, the vice of oppressors. In the short story “The Lottery,” a town participates in a barbaric ritual wherein the person that selects a paper marked with a black dot is stoned to death. Most residents of the village have not undergone the sorrow of having a loved one stoned to death, and therefore cannot fathom the grief. Additionally, the horrid outcome of death has obviously never been experienced by the living. This causes the citizens to view the stoning in a dreadfully blasé fashion; the consequences of the ritual are not even contemplated as the village continues on with their daily lives, to the point of greeting “one another and [exchanging] bits of gossip as they [go] to join their husbands” (Jackson 9) merely moments before the
Men in the society would perpetrate women’s oppression, and this was because they were insensitive to its atrocious effects. They would gain power over women, and oppressors never feel as if they have any form of privilege. In these ways, men oppress women because they are insensitive to gender discrimination. In addition to discrimination of women, nonchalant and aloof veneers are adopted when an atrophic event has never had a direct impact on an individual, and which causes inaction, the vice of oppressors. In the short story “The Lottery,” a town participates in a barbaric ritual wherein the person that selects a paper marked with a black dot is stoned to death. Most residents of the village have not undergone the sorrow of having a loved one stoned to death, and therefore cannot fathom the grief. Additionally, the horrid outcome of death has obviously never been experienced by the living. This causes the citizens to view the stoning in a dreadfully blasé fashion; the consequences of the ritual are not even contemplated as the village continues on with their daily lives, to the point of greeting “one another and [exchanging] bits of gossip as they [go] to join their husbands” (Jackson 9) merely moments before the