The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Conflict Essay

There have always been different conflicts in our world. Society can either learn and grow from them or be destroyed by them. In three stories “The wife’s story” by Ursula Le Guin, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “Clock (bomb)” by Associated Press, the topic of the conflict is between different cultures are explored. The first story that shows a conflict between cultures is “The wife’s story” by Ursula Le Guin. In this story, there is a married couple who loved each other so much, but what the wife didn’t know is that she married someone that was quite different than others. One night when the wife went to check up on her husband, she was in fear for seeing the truth that her husband was a human. The ironic part is that the couple are wolves and the husband is basically a werewolf after the moon comes out. “The others were drawing back from the kill, because of the taste of the blood, and the smell.” (122)The conflict in this story is that the wolf pack can’t get along with the werewolf because it is half human, it is distinct, and the wolves would never try to get along with a human. The pack of wolves ended up killing the man because he was something different than …show more content…
The village in this story has a tradition that they do every year where everybody has to participate except for children, and it is known as “the lottery”. In reality it’s not actually a lottery where they win money, but where they auction off people and whoever gets called, they get the consequence that the village provides. “Some places already quit lotteries,” Mrs. Adams said. “Nothing but trouble in that,” Old Man Warner said stoutly. (202) The conflict going on here is that the other towns have stopped doing the lottery because of how they punish the people and they probably didn’t like it; but this village keeps doing it because they like it and they have no purpose on doing