Summary Of The Lottery By Tess Hutchinson

Literary Critic Fritz Oehschlaeger in his article “The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in ‘The Lottery’’’ (1988) asserts that the deeply flawed rite that is the lottery is designed on the most basic level to control the women of their patriarchal society. He supports his claim first by identifying the largely evident ways that women are controlled and put down in their twisted society, then by showing the parallels between Tess Huchinson and prolific feminist figures, Anne Hutchinson and the main character from another one of Jackson’s works named Hester Lucas, who both defy the patriarchy in their perspective situations, then by identifying the story’s likeness to the famous Salem Witch Trials, and finally by examining