The Lottery is one of the most famous American short stories, written by the novelist and non-fiction writer Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), published on June 26, 1948 by The New Yorker for the first time. This story takes place in the countryside of a small town where the social and economic aspects were based on tradition. Shirley “oversees human behavior” (Votteler, 248) and its “capacity to do harm in a contemporary context” (Cromie,180), and “the danger of ritualized behavior” (Cromie,180); therefore, what I believe is the most important, the need to question our traditions especially when they include the “victimization of an individual” (Votteler, 248) for social benefit. It was a sunny morning on June 27th. People meet, greet and talk about ordinary topics such as houses, "platting and rain, tractors and taxes" (Jackson, 1), tell jokes, children play with each other, the Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Delacroix gossiped; Bobby Martin, Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix were collecting rocks to fill their pockets. Nothing eccentric when it comes to the daily routine of the town...