The Lottery

Part I of Essay
: Challenges to Social Order The rigid structure of society reinforces order and promotes conformity of all classes TO THE SOCIAL NORM, but an individual WHO REBELS AGAINST established NORMS poses a threat TO SOCIETY AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. Shirley Jackson, the ....

Part II of Essay
.... FAMALIES. Mrs. Hutchinson, however, rebels against SOCIALLY ACCEPTED male domination. (Arriving late, she raises suspicions of resistance to everything 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 ....