Shirley Jackson's Lottery AnalysisShirley Jackson's “The Lottery” was written in 1948. The story takes place in a town square on June 27th. The author does not use much emotion in the writing to show how the barbaric act that is happening is considered normal. This story is about a town that holds a lottery once a year to choose who should be sacrificed, so that the town has a plentiful year to grow crops. Jackson has many messages about human nature in this tale. The most important message it conveys is how cruel and violent people can be towards each other. Another very significant message it conveys is how custom and tradition can have great power over people. Jackson also conveys the message of how men treat women like objects. The main message that Jackson shows in "The Lottery" is that people can be involved in such a violent act and not think anything of it. In the story all the people are happy, "they stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed."(244) All the people of the town come together without asking questions. to carry out this horrible act of murder. All people do not think about this terrible act. Mr. Summers, the man who runs the whole lottery, says, "I suppose we'd better get started, get it over with, so we can get back to work." (245) This illustrates how they think of the lottery as an everyday event. Old Man Warner says: “June lottery, c...