The Lottery: Themes

The papers' blankness suggests the simplicity of the lottery; the emptiness implies a mindless obedience to a tradition long followed but now perhaps

The black box is the container from which the villagers draw the slips of paper for the lottery, and as part of this tradition, it has special meaning for

what channel does the lottery come on The villagers' failure to put an end to the lottery ritual symbolizes the weakness in people They are well aware of its wrongness, yet they do

whats poker face This shows the true essence of the lottery: murder The tradition is not the box or the stool, but the ruthless stoning The villagers do not remember much from