Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" portrays a small town in which the citizens gather for a yearly lottery. The story begins on a beautiful summer afternoon. The town's citizens are eager, gathering in the town square in order to take part in the yearly lottery by drawing slips of paper from a traditional black box. Everyone, including Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson, awaits this yearly tradition and most of them agree that this tradition should continue to be …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…finally arrived at the town square, was mentioned as finding the largest stone ~ one that she could barely pick up. Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson was tardy to the biggest event of the year. She desperately hoped that her family would not win the lottery, yet her whining and complaining annoyed everyone and tends to make the reader feel that she deserves the death that she was awarded, although no one should have to suffer such cruelty.