"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of the New Yorker it received a response that "no New Yorker story had eve received": hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by "bewilderment, speculation, and old-fashioned abuse". In her stories "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson teaches the themes in many criteria. Here, I would like to point out a curious crux in Shirley Jackson's treatment of the theme of "a community who …showed first 75 words of 988 total…

…showed last 75 words of 988 total…story - Davy Hutchinson. When he has to choose his lottery ticket, the adults help him while he looks at them "wonderingly". And when Mrs. Hutchinson is finally to be stoned "someone" has to give Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles to stone his mother. This had made them uncivilized and forgot about humanity. To approve this, Shirley Jackson had been stated in "The children had stones already. And someone gave Little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.