The Lottery

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represents.) When her family name is called, she pushes her husband, "Get up there, Bill." (561) In doing so, she acts rebelliously, ironically contradicting custom by reversing the accepted power relation between husbands and wives. In her name Hutchinson, Jackson alludes to the religious reformer Anne Hutchinson, who WAS A THREAT TO SOCIETY AS A WOMAN PREACHER. She was banished from her society, as Tessie is stoned and eliminated. (In this way, Jackson shows that rebellion of a place in society is repressed.)
In addition to the reinforcement of a firm division between the genders, the institution of maintains the structure of society by motivating work. A fear is instilled that lack of productivity will cause one to be selected in the next lottery and banished from the common group. The village reveals this fear in their questions after the first round: "Who is it? Who's got it? Is it the Dunbars? Is it the Watsons?" (562) The Dunbars and the Watsons are the least productive ...

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achieve society's subtle goal to repress individuality and challenges to the social order. shows how social norms are enforced in communities and why; it also shows that almost every community has a reformer.
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