The Lottery Themes, Symbols, and Motifs

His cheerful demeanor, and the symbolism of his name, creates an ironic contrast to the dark seriousness of the ritual Tessie Hutchinson Late for the lottery

The Lottery Themes, Symbols, and Motifs Black, the color of the box represents death, evil, fear, and mystery The random drawing from the black box constructs fear and mystery in the people

His cheerful demeanor, and the symbolism of his name, creates an ironic contrast to the dark seriousness of the ritual Tessie Hutchinson Late for the lottery

what poker hands beat what There used to be costumes and song The box used to symbolize part of an ornate tradition that was linked to the lottery Its shabby condition

would fit more easily into the black box The night before the lottery, Mr Summers and Mr Graves made up the slips of paper and put them

what does power play mean in lottery He carries a black wooden box, which he places on a three-legged stool in the center of the square Reflecting on this box, the narrator

Virgil Scott, for example, writes that the story leaves one uneasy because of the author's use of incidental symbolism the black box, the