The Importance Of Bandwagon In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

Bandwagon is a term used to describe a group of people who participate/like a certain thing only due to the fact that it is currently popular. The towns’ people in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, may not particularly like the Lottery game they play every year; however, proceed along with this game due to the fact everyone else does. It takes a special kind of person to swim against the current and to speak out on what she/he believes. Tessie becomes alienated because she is different from the bandwagon. Human nature is to challenge the rules and regulations set in place that appear to make the world a “safe place.” If that makes Tessie feel like an outsider, then so be it. One feels out-casted since they stand out from the rest and are genetically coded differently. If an individual, such as Tessie, becomes a stranger to the ones around them, it is up to that person to decide on how this will affect them.
What makes a person become an outsider? Being ostracized, the feeling …show more content…
This task to decide what route one desires to go down must be a tedious mission. Tessie chooses the pathway of standing out from others and by doing so, she tends to humor the towns’ people. Not only does human nature demand for one to stand out or to blend, but also with blaming others or situations for problems that they cannot fix by themselves. "It isn 't fair, it isn 't right," Mrs. Hutchinson (aka Tessie) screamed (Jackson, 7). As well as saying that her husband was not allotted to correct amount of time to choose which slip of paper he wanted. She attempts to find a scapegoat in every which way. Tessie made an effort at trying to get her daughter and son-in-law to draw so she would have less of a chance of pulling out the black dotted piece of paper. Human nature can be a funny thing because it demands a person to be different, yet similar at the same