The Lottery, A Desensitization Of A Society

The actions of the adults show that they have become truly desensitized to the senseless violence that occurs year after year in their town. The attitudes of the adults of the town show an utter nonchalance toward the lottery. No one really seems to show any sort of feeling towards the lottery. The only emotion that they really seem to show is one of a slight unea

The attitude of the Hutchinson’s, the one’s who draw the fatal slip of paper are some of the most disinterested that you see in the story. Everyone, that is, except for Tess Hutchinson, who is the one to draw the final, and fatal, slip of paper. She starts screaming about how things are unfair. Her children and husband are a different matter. When Nancy and Bill, Jr., her children open their slips they turn around in the crowd and

It seems that most societies would treat the object of such horror with something akin to respect. These people just treat it as something of a footstool for the majority of the year. Things like this show how desensitized the adults of the community really had become.

Also, their attitude toward the black box that holds the slips of paper was one of indifference.

“ Bobby Martin ducked under his mother’s grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones.”

“The black box grew shabbier each year; by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the

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