Greed In Anton Chekov's The Lottery Ticket

In Anton Chekov’s “The Lottery Ticket”, greed is often the temptation loved ones employ to manipulate each other. The couple is portrayed as “middle-class [people]… [who] [are] well satisfied with [their] lot”(p1). When the wife and husband discover their ticket might have been a win, “[they] began laughing and staring in silence”, both were in shock; “the possibility of winning bewildered them”(p1). As the thought of money lingered in their minds, their emotions of greed began to arise between the couple. The temptation of money started to manipulate one another, Ivan knew his wife “had her own daydreams, her own plans [and] her own reflections”, however, “[he] pictured to himself autumn with its rains, its cold evenings, and its St. Martin's