Human Nature in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Essay -- The Lottery Ess

The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe vagary of winning a lottery is associated with luck, happiness and anticipation of good things. In Shirley Jacksons story, The Lottery, this is not the case. The irony of the story is that the winner of the lottery gets stoned to death by everyone else in the town. The story is very effective because it examines veritable aspects of human nature. One aspect of human nature that is examined, and that adds to the effectiveness of the story, is mans drift to resist interchange. This is shown in more than one track. The first way is the way some villagers tolerate the lottery correct though they know it is wrong, and it serves no purpose. They talk about how other towns have already stopped having lotteries, solely they allow it to continue year after year. Old man Warner even says theres nothing but trouble in quitting lotteries. Townsfolk listen to him because he has been in the lottery seventy-seven years. The townsfolk feel helpless to chang e things because they have been going on for so long. The fact that the box is sure-enough(a) and needs to be replace...