“The Lottery” is a story that appeals to the discriminating reader. The discriminating reader enjoys both types of literature, escape and interpretive. Escape literature can captivate a reader through the use of identifiable characters in unlikely circumstances. Escape literature often creates a happy mood when read and does not challenge the mind of the reader to create an opinion on the story’s subject. Interpretive literature includes insight into the nature of human behavior. It can be accomplished through insights into what people do in certain situations and how you would react in similar ones.