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The Significance Of Changes In The Lottery
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In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson shows that times change and that people, sometimes, get trapped in tradition, forgetting to update their rituals to make them apply to their present lives. She uses Old Man Warner as a symbol of tradition that will not change. The black box with paper slips and the “lost” “original paraphernalia” fo ....
Middle of paper ....d chips.” Therefore, they did modernize part of the tradition; they just did not question the meaning and modernize it in the more significant areas.
At one time, cutting out some of the ritual and some comments made to Tessie suggest that meanings change with different time periods. They had cut out the “recital of some sort, performed by th.... |
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