Male Authority And Female Struggle In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson is one of American author who critically celebrated the short story of “The Lottery” because it is hard to ignore by everyone, they either loved it or hated. This story has an ability to create a very sad emotion in almost everyone who reads it. It is one of the stories that seems as much fun to think but very emotionally to read. This Story uses contrast when the author describes the difference between what the audience notices and expect and what actually happens. She also talks about the theme of mutual mentality to explain how people are more than eager to make an act of mass violence, simply for the sake of their own tradition in the village and how male domination has raised very well than female. Jackson …show more content…
Then she talks about the children who came to lottery and how boys began to collect stones while the girls chatted about their friends and hoping for their friends name to be not on the lottery draw. The author trying to prove this conflict by describing that Men run the lottery show, all of the other lottery officers are men and they speaks about important things such as "planting and taxes." While the women meet around to the show after the men and gossips about others. He state this by giving an example where in the beginning of the story males control the lottery show while females stand aside and hoping for their friends name to be not in the lottery. Also the author talks about the women were treated with no respect and just for cleaning, cooking and a person who live for her family in that village. For example Tessie in the story presented as a good wife but eventually a weak mother in the story. When she finds that her family is the chosen one for the show, she attempts to sacrifice herself for the event even though she had a son who moves in with his own stones to contribute in his mother's sacrifice. Finally, the author state that the lottery must appear to be fair to men and women and it must give the villagers the sense of …show more content…
The reader does not understand at first what the lottery stand for till the story ending in the heartless stoning of a mother. In first, Jackson clearly state the contrast by set the story in a village for the purpose to show the unthinkable violence that stays within most people. This is the reason the author chooses a small village and ordinary people. The children in the village grow up in the violent ceremony, and few people bother to question the lottery, even though they do not even remember why it was begun. Secondly, author talks about Women are also treated very poorly because the male dominant in the village. In addition, women have to sacrifice their self in stoning even though they have a male member in the family. There are places to the man as the head of the house and finally, she also talks about the mutual mentality to explain how people are more than eager to make an act of mass violence, simply for the sake of their own tradition in the village. Therefore the author very effectively makes her point in this traditional