The Ritual And The Celebrated In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery
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Jackson tells “‘Seventy-seven year I been in the lottery,’ Old Man Warner said as he went through the crown. ‘Seventy-seventh time.’” (289) In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, A small isolated community makes a ritual consisting in the murder of a random villager by stoning. This ritual is done as some sort of offering with the purpose of having successful harvest of crops. The quotation represents how people keep celebrating nonsense traditions without questioning them and how they will remain existing unless someone puts a stop to it. The oldest man in the village “Old Man Werner” celebrated the lottery apparently since he was little and never question whether the ritual had an impact in the harvest or not. At the end