The Lottery Remote Setting

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Have you ever hoped not to win the lottery? Sometimes winning certain lotteries is a curse, like in the gothic tale “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson. In this story, a village has a lottery every year. The person chosen by the lottery is sacrificed by the hands of the rest of the villagers. “The Lottery” is a gothic tale because it is in a remote setting, has a person with a tormented mind, and has dark and macabre events in its story. The first element that makes “The lottery” a gothic story is a remote setting. Jackson shows us this by writing this in her story, “In this village, where there were only about three hundred people.” No outsiders what so ever are mentioned in the story, so we can assume this is an isolated village. Most of …show more content…
One example is when the author starts off describing a beautiful summer day by saying, “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (Jackson). However, the village assembled in the town square to have an annual lottery. The lottery that they hold every year it to decide who is to be sacrificed. This is saying that it's a perfect summer day to kill a fellow villager. Another example of a dark event in this story is when “someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles” (Jackson) to throw at his own mother because she was picked by the lottery. This shows how twisted the villagers are by getting a little kid to help stone his own mother to death. “The Lottery” is a gothic tale because it has a remote setting, a tormented mind, and dark and macabre events in the story. These stories encourage the reader to consider their own values and moral convictions as they examine the social atrocities of gothic tales. The gothic tradition has inspired a lot of writers and will inspire writers and readers of the
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