In the story “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to develop the theme that humanity is weak and blink. Throughout the story, the characters with special name had demonstrated the weakness of human nature will lead to be conformity and eventually cause death. Even though Mr. Graves state “all of [them have] the same chance” to take time and choose their ticket, the fear of death from the village will not say any absolve word for the scapegoat Hutchison and Mrs. Delacroix hoping to “Hurry up” no matter how the scapegoat explaining “it [is] not fair”. Jackson purposely uses these symbolism of name - Hutchinson means the heart or soul, representing the base kindness of human being. Furthermore, Tessie Hutchinson also is an allusion to
