Cotton E. R.
Evelyn R. Cotton
Ms. Pittman
English 102
February 21, 2017
The Fiction Analysis of the Story ?The Lottery?
The suspense that Shirley Jackson writes about in the short story ?The Lottery? (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine?s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015]259-266) takes an otherwise bizarre tradition that a small community?s conformist behavior participates in yearly. This story first gives the impression of a light read about what would be our normal interpretation of winning the lottery, typically a joyous occasion. The short story though, becomes clear to the reader that a horrific situation comes about, when one of the community members ?wins? the lottery.
Shirley Jackson writes in the third person, narrating in an objective manner which gives …show more content…
Summer soberly saying, ?guess we better get started, get this over with, so?s we can go back to work.? (261). The humdrum attitude eerily connects us to something just not right with this tradition. He calls out the family names, so each male picks a piece of paper from the black box, without looking until every villager received one. Shirley Jackson soon takes us on a quick emotional ride. The Hutchinson family win the first round to the lottery and the darkness to this tradition shows its ugly face. Protesting Tessie said, ?I tell you it wasn?t fair. You didn?t give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that.? (264). This tradition needs a scapegoat for it to survive, even when it makes no sense to yearly except one of your own neighbors as the sacrificial lamb. Because of a tradition that has been done for generation? The ?blind leading the blind? because there is no sense into what is about to
Evelyn R. Cotton
Ms. Pittman
English 102
February 21, 2017
The Fiction Analysis of the Story ?The Lottery?
The suspense that Shirley Jackson writes about in the short story ?The Lottery? (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine?s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015]259-266) takes an otherwise bizarre tradition that a small community?s conformist behavior participates in yearly. This story first gives the impression of a light read about what would be our normal interpretation of winning the lottery, typically a joyous occasion. The short story though, becomes clear to the reader that a horrific situation comes about, when one of the community members ?wins? the lottery.
Shirley Jackson writes in the third person, narrating in an objective manner which gives …show more content…
Summer soberly saying, ?guess we better get started, get this over with, so?s we can go back to work.? (261). The humdrum attitude eerily connects us to something just not right with this tradition. He calls out the family names, so each male picks a piece of paper from the black box, without looking until every villager received one. Shirley Jackson soon takes us on a quick emotional ride. The Hutchinson family win the first round to the lottery and the darkness to this tradition shows its ugly face. Protesting Tessie said, ?I tell you it wasn?t fair. You didn?t give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that.? (264). This tradition needs a scapegoat for it to survive, even when it makes no sense to yearly except one of your own neighbors as the sacrificial lamb. Because of a tradition that has been done for generation? The ?blind leading the blind? because there is no sense into what is about to