Multiple Levels Of Meaning In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Win big, instant millions. The lottery is a summer drawing in a small town that consists of the townspeople gathering in a center place of the town and some piling up stones. The Hutchinson father won the lottery on this specific day but the wife fought for a redraw of the lottery. When the winner is determined it is the wife, Tessie Hutchinson. She is then stoned to death as a scapegoating tradition of the town. In the short story, the lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the author uses multiple levels of meaning within her writing through implicit and explicit points of view.
Jackson uses implicit viewpoints in her multiple levels of meaning by using incongruity of life. The title of the lottery can be deceiving because the human expects to receive