The Lottery

At the times of the 1940’s there was an era regarding the warfare and cruelty in America. It was about the end of World War II and, America has witnessed the most horrendous occurrence in all of history. It was the Holocaust. Being born at the end of the Second World War, Shirley Jackson’s life was suffused with horrible thoughts, actions and violence throughout the world. Jackson’s husband has once said, “They are a sensitive and faithful anatomy of our times, fitting symbols for our distressing world of the camp and the bomb” (The Lottery 144). Shirley’s story is about a town of a few hundred residents who join every year to be a part of the lottery. It then hits two stages of the drawing and Tessie Hutchinson “wins”. Now that she won, she is stoned to death by her people. Even her own family allowed this to happen! This discourteous distress in this twist was horrifying that anyone could just kill someone because, they won the lottery. When people read Jackson’s story, the readers had that sense of bad thoughts that, Jackson had Psychological problems and they immediately started to criticize The Lottery. Even the publishers thought that she was that crazy and they didn’t even want to publish her story. In an undertake to depict the details that no one liked though, she greatly expresses literary details without the brutality of the story. Though, the individualization of Tessie and the use of the world of that cruelty in all areas viewed as requisite evil with some serenity after this tradition in this horrifying village. So, even though The Lottery was published in 1948, it was defined for the 1950s, with the help from a show on television that explained the ideal American home. Which said that in “The United States during the late 1940s and 1950s was largely a patriarchal society, one in which women were expected to stay at home and raise the children” (The Lottery 145). This evokes the idea that in the days women were way too unequal to men and they had