Examples Of Ritual In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson's The Lottery the rituals of the lottery The community carries out the ritual with an air of tired routine, “speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes” while waiting for it to the lottery corporation During this day, villagers will amass in the town square for the yearly lottery, which lasts for about two hours Jackson's narrator compares

the lottery mood Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that