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Literary Critique of the The Lottery's Cangemi

Uploaded by anthalgas on Nov 14, 2007

The small village of people gathers at 10 a.m. on June 27 in the square between the post office and the bank for the annual lottery. A bright sun is shining down on fragrant flowers and green lawns while all the villagers await the arrival of Mr. Summers and the black wooden box from which everyone is to draw a folded slip of paper. The older people chat while children play a game in which they gather stones. Whoever draws the slip of paper with the black dot on it will be the winner so to say of the lottery.
.......Over the years, the lottery rules and trappings stayed the same except for some small changes: the wood chips were replaced by the slips of paper, and ritual chants and salutes preceding the drawing were eliminated. No one in the square knows why or how the lottery began. All they know is that it is a tradition and not one that they are not willing to abandon. After Mr. Summers shows up with the black box, he sets it down and prepares for the drawing. A housewife, Tessie Hutchinson, arrives late, telling Mrs. Delacroix that she “Clean forgot what day it was” until she noticed that her children had left her house and remembered it was the day of the lottery.
.......Each of the townspeople draws a folded slip of paper but does not open it until everyone has drawn. When the big moment arrives, it is Tessie Hutchinson who has the paper with the black dot. Everyone then closes in on her, picks up rocks-the “proceeds” of the lottery and stones her to death.


The short story, “The Lottery” has 11 basic main characters. The Adam’s are both people that like to question the ritual of the lottery. Mrs. Delacroix was the first person Tessie talked to when she arrived late to the lottery. Mrs. Janey Dunbar had to draw the slip of paper for her husband because he was at home with a broken leg. Mr. and Mrs. Graves are two of the most powerful and accepting villagers about the lottery. Bill Hutchinson is an accepting person when it comes to the lottery. He is almost enjoying it, he tells his wife to “shut up” when she questions the ritual of the lottery. Tessie Hutchinson, the most important roll in the story, was the person...

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Uploaded by:   anthalgas

Date:   11/14/2007

Category:   Literature

Length:   5 pages (1,170 words)

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