The Lottery

The short story “The Lottery” had quite a bit to say in such a small amount of space. The whole concept of the story was a lot to take in at the time. Some of the author’s decisions in the script threw me off of what was really happening. He had some depth behind what was taking place, for example, the characters names and what they actually mean. Every person with their special name played a very important role in the story. The black box also represented something very important, such as how long the lottery had actually been going on for. The wear and tear on the box had been handed down from generation to generation. Not much has been done to try to get rid of the lottery which in my own opinion doesn’t really make sense. In today’s society this event would be really hard to get used to. This would be especially hard if the person who won was staged to win. Throughout the whole story it seemed to be staged that Tessie was somehow going to be the one who ended up winning.

 I didn’t quite like how the story ended. For one the way Tessie’s husband treated before and after her name was chosen. He was on her side fully until her name was drawn and at that moment he knew her only as the winner of the lottery. He was ready to kill his own wife right when she was called. Tessie was also a little strange throughout the story because she was all for the lottery until she was the one called as the winner. She yelled “This isn’t fair,” but at that time it was too late the villagers were already upon her including her husband and son little Davy. This story reminded me quite a bit of the Hunger Games which didn’t end as badly as this story did.