“The Lottery” is Shirley Jackson’s implication that the world of her lottery is our world, scaled down for the sake of the economy. The town in which the Lottery takes place contains a post office, a grocery store, a bank, a school system, a coal business; its women are all housewives as an alternative to jobs in a real workplace; and its men talk about “tractors and taxes”. (pg 374) More importantly, however, the town …showed first 75 words of 1379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1379 total…see these rebellious type actions are in Tessie, and Mr. Mrs. Adam’s suggestion, squelched by Warner, that the lottery must be gotten rid of. Ultimately these rebellious impulses are channeled by the lottery and its attendant ideology away from their own proper objects into anger at the rebellious victims of capitalist social organization. Like Tessie, this people of the town cannot articulate their rebellion because the massive force of ideology stands in the way.