Setting in “The Lottery” The setting in a story helps to form the story and it makes the characters become more interesting. There are three main types of setting. The first is nature and the outdoors, second is objects of human manufacture and construction and the third is cultural conditions and assumptions. These three things help the reader to understand the characters better in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. “The Lottery” is started out by …showed first 75 words of 931 total…

…showed last 75 words of 931 total…who have families and children. They all have jobs and prosper in the community. It is not until the end that the reader realizes that this so called normal community is not so normal. Even though these people function as normal individuals they are able to justify the stoning of another human being. This is what makes the setting seem to be as bizarre as something that you would see in a horror movie does.