The villagers descend upon Tessie with the stones. In the story, The Lottery, Shirley Jackson tells us a heartbreaking story of a town that murders someone every year as a tradition their village holds. Old Man Warner, the oldest man in the village, urges the villagers on. They want to get this over with before noon dinner.Īs Tessie screams, a stone hits her on the side of the head. The villagers begin to pick up the stones they’d gathered earlier and form a circle around Tessie. Tessie begins to scream that it’s not fair, it’s not right. All of the papers are blank, except for Tessie’s, which has a black dot in pencil on it. Summers puts five slips of paper into the box, including the one Bill Hutchinson had been holding when he was chosen.Įach member of the Hutchinson family draws a slip of paper from the box. The entire Hutchinson family, Bill, Tessie, Bill, Jr., 12-year-old Nancy, and toddler Little Davy, are called up to the box. Tessie begins to yell that it isn’t fair, and that Bill wasn’t given enough time to choose the paper he wanted by Mr. The slip of paper he took has something on it. The conflict arises when Tessie Hutchinson realizes her husband, Bill, is the center of the villagers’ attention. Every head of household is called to grab a slip of paper from the box in the center of the village square. The crowd in the small village has gathered for an annual lottery that takes place each year at the end of June.
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