While reading, Shirley Jackson’s, “The lottery” it threw me off guard with the surprise ending. She sets up with this beautiful image of this small community that is so nice and peaceful, yet the ending is nowhere near as peaceful as the beginning. There was so much significance throughout the story as to why the story was wrote and what it meant, it just might surprise you. The first thing that has any significance is the lottery itself. The lottery is an unquestioned ritual just like ones that we celebrate today: Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Just because ours aren’t as evil as the lottery, doesn’t mean that people don’t celebrate them that are just as bad. Some may not realize but the author has symbolism as well. In the 1940’s,
