What does it mean to be an outsider? According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, an outsider is “a person who does not belong to or is not accepted as part of a particular group or organization.” In other words, there is not a connection binding the person to fit into a particular group. In the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, portrays what it feels like to be an outsider of any group, just because a person believes something everyone else doesn’t, acts different, or generally new to the crowd. Being pushed to the side and ignored because of race, gender, social status, job, or a weird mustache on face is much like getting stone, minus the physical pain, but it still hurts inside. From the story, we meet a lady named Tessie Hutchinson. Tessie once a mire housewife and town member is now the winner of the Lottery that has deemed her an outsider and
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However a few members of the town do hint at the option to giving up the Lottery. A character by the name of Mr. Adams is talking to Old Man Warner, whose character’s very existence screams, unchanging and unwilling to change, and making a statement how in the north some villages are thinking of giving up the Lottery. Old Man Warner replies, “Pack of crazy fools” (143). He also says that there has always been a lottery and implies that without it that village would go into chaos and crumple. They don’t question the origins for the custom. The Lottery has been mildly changing without anyone really notice. And hopefully it will eventually die out like so many rituals. Two example of change are the items used: the Black box and the tickets. Apparently, the black box it a remake of the old. Even the tickets have been changed from wooden pieces to pieces of paper by suggestion of Mr. Summers. But like all holidays and traditions, things change about them and they still aren’t
However a few members of the town do hint at the option to giving up the Lottery. A character by the name of Mr. Adams is talking to Old Man Warner, whose character’s very existence screams, unchanging and unwilling to change, and making a statement how in the north some villages are thinking of giving up the Lottery. Old Man Warner replies, “Pack of crazy fools” (143). He also says that there has always been a lottery and implies that without it that village would go into chaos and crumple. They don’t question the origins for the custom. The Lottery has been mildly changing without anyone really notice. And hopefully it will eventually die out like so many rituals. Two example of change are the items used: the Black box and the tickets. Apparently, the black box it a remake of the old. Even the tickets have been changed from wooden pieces to pieces of paper by suggestion of Mr. Summers. But like all holidays and traditions, things change about them and they still aren’t