Tone And Symbolism In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

“The lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story. The story “The lottery” is about these people that keep their “tradition” “The lottery” is about murder. They use “The lottery” as a way to keep their population down and not grow to big. They Are also crazy cause they stone people to death and just like to watch people in pain. In “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to illustrates the themes of tone mood and symbolism which will help you better understand the story.
One literary device that Jackson uses is irony. This is an the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (Irony 1). Verbal irony in which a person talks or write something down and says one thing but does another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. Example for the title of the story “The Lottery” usually the lottery is when people are happy they won money or something with value. The word lottery some of love to say that we won the lottery and go crazy for but in the story nobody wanting the prize
The pitch of a word often used to express differences of meanings (tone).The early tone of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is bright, joyful, and delightful.The opening sentence says that it was a joyful day. So starting of as the day the lottery takes place on a clear sunny day with fresh warmth the day the lottery starts. As the story progresses it starts to get people in tune who has the paper everyone wondering saying “bill bill Hutchison has the paper” nervously looking around. The ending part of the story is when the story gets dark, after they find out Bill didn't have the paper with the black dot Bill took the note out of his wife's hands and then there was a stir in the crowd but they remember how to use do the ritual after losing the original box so the children grab the stones and townspeople circle Tessie and start stoning to her to