Drawing Names in The Lottery

Drawing Names in “The Lottery” “The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance,” Shakespeare once wrote. This quotation strengthens Shirley Jackson’s ideas in “The Lottery”, as she very distinctly uses symbolic names for her characters to show the ignorance of the sacrificial lottery the small village holds year after year. These sacrifices, which used to be held to appease the god of harvest, have grown meaningless in their culture. Jackson uses the characters not …showed first 75 words of 1004 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1004 total…with the reader by a wonderful job of using the characters names to symbolize meanings that she couldn’t get across to the reader any other way. She showed how Mr. Graves’ sacrificial killing and Old Man Warner’s strong tradition was too much of a history for Mr. Summers new ideas and young Watson’s realizations. Mrs. Hutchinson still got her hand in the box and the stone up the side of her head.