In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” there are many contradictions between readers that leaves so many unanswered questions and doesn’t have a broad meaning about as to why the author decided to publish such a story. There are many symbolical meanings in the story and plenty of detailed emotions about how the characters are feeling, their gestures, and how they communicate with one another. Jackson’s short story is considered to be one the most loved and hated stories of the 20th century. According to my point of view the main idea that Jackson attempts to communicate to the reader about life or human experience is that death is a common ending that happens unexpectedly to everyone, society is unbalanced, and a good friend can actually
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Mr. and Mrs. Graves names symbolize death, death is unexpected also a reality that everyone must face whether one is young or old. There seems to be tension going on in the story once the drawing of the papers take place and when everyone is ready to look at the paper they chose. For example, “Mr. Graves opened the slip of paper and there was a general sigh through the crowd as he held it up and everyone could see that it was blank. Nancy and Bill, Jr. , opened theirs at the same time, and both beamed and laughed, turning around to the crowd and holding their slips of paper above their heads.” This dialogue indicates that since the two youths didn’t get picked they are happy and as for the general sigh it clearly indicates a sense of relief of not having to go through the forced …show more content…
With these descriptions being made it clearly indicates that the author did this to distract the reader and obscure the reality of what will happen at the end. The “best-friend” of Tessie (the protagonist) grabs the largest rock to get thrown at Tessie. In a character analysis by the Smoop Editorial Team, they state that “Critic Helen Nebeker has pointed out that "Delacroix" means "of-the-cross" in French. Nebeker draws particular attention to Jackson 's elaboration that the villagers pronounce "Delacroix" (de-la-KWAH) as "Dellacroy." In other words, argues Nebeker, the villagers are perverting the cross, the big Christian symbol of martyrdom: far from being a willing sacrifice, the lottery makes an absolutely unwilling, hypocritical woman bear the burden of the community 's ritual murder.” Also that, Mrs. Delacroix 's reversal is perhaps the most obvious example of the deadening effect that this tradition has had on the hearts and minds of the villagers; she seems so unconscious of her own inconsistency that it would be difficult to call her betrayal of Tess hypocrisy. It 's not conscious enough to be hypocrisy – Mrs. Delacroix really seems incapable of seeing how vicious and inconsistent she is being. And that 's possibly the most horrible thing about the ending of this
Mr. and Mrs. Graves names symbolize death, death is unexpected also a reality that everyone must face whether one is young or old. There seems to be tension going on in the story once the drawing of the papers take place and when everyone is ready to look at the paper they chose. For example, “Mr. Graves opened the slip of paper and there was a general sigh through the crowd as he held it up and everyone could see that it was blank. Nancy and Bill, Jr. , opened theirs at the same time, and both beamed and laughed, turning around to the crowd and holding their slips of paper above their heads.” This dialogue indicates that since the two youths didn’t get picked they are happy and as for the general sigh it clearly indicates a sense of relief of not having to go through the forced …show more content…
With these descriptions being made it clearly indicates that the author did this to distract the reader and obscure the reality of what will happen at the end. The “best-friend” of Tessie (the protagonist) grabs the largest rock to get thrown at Tessie. In a character analysis by the Smoop Editorial Team, they state that “Critic Helen Nebeker has pointed out that "Delacroix" means "of-the-cross" in French. Nebeker draws particular attention to Jackson 's elaboration that the villagers pronounce "Delacroix" (de-la-KWAH) as "Dellacroy." In other words, argues Nebeker, the villagers are perverting the cross, the big Christian symbol of martyrdom: far from being a willing sacrifice, the lottery makes an absolutely unwilling, hypocritical woman bear the burden of the community 's ritual murder.” Also that, Mrs. Delacroix 's reversal is perhaps the most obvious example of the deadening effect that this tradition has had on the hearts and minds of the villagers; she seems so unconscious of her own inconsistency that it would be difficult to call her betrayal of Tess hypocrisy. It 's not conscious enough to be hypocrisy – Mrs. Delacroix really seems incapable of seeing how vicious and inconsistent she is being. And that 's possibly the most horrible thing about the ending of this