Coffeehouse #2

I love reading and I haven’t read any good short stories or books in a while but the gothic fiction short story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson was one that I really enjoyed.

There are so many reasons why I liked this short story. In the beginning of the story, it was going to be a wonderful day. Everyone was chatting and the children were playing and waiting to draw their ticket from the black box like the prize was something great. I did not think the end would’ve been horrifying.

After I read the story, I was a little upset the way it ended. Like was I tricked? Her own children and friends were about to stone her to death. The actual lottery prize was, being killed by your community. However, I started to process the plot, I realized I enjoyed reading the short story and suspense it came with. There were clues from the beginning about the “stones”, but I didn’t think it was a symbol.

Compared to the other fives stories “The Lottery” didn’t make me loose interest even at the end. After reading I was thinking about the characters and what happens to the Hutchinson family after they helped stone her to death? Do you get a good night rest after the narrator kills his wife like in “The Black Cat” By Edger Allen Poe?

This story really made me think about people that may be in your life. Some may not like you and you won’t know until your time is ending like Mrs. Dunbar carrying the heaviest rock to throw at Mrs. Hutchinson. Also, how could a person’s husband be so happy that you die instead of him. I have never read a story with an ending that made me think about the clues and what I could’ve missed even after reading the story twice.