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((short description|1948 short story by Shirley Jackson))
((about|the short story||Lottery (disambiguation)))
((Use American English|date=December 2022))
((Use mdy dates|date=December 2022))
((Infobox short story| <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novel or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = The Lottery
| image         =
| image_caption =
| author        = [[Shirley Jackson]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = Short story<br />Dystopian
| publisher     = ''[[The New Yorker]]''
| pub_date      = June 26, 1948
))

"'''The Lottery'''" is a [[short story]] by [[Shirley Jackson]] that was first published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' on June 26, 1948.((efn|The story was reprinted in the issue dated July 27, 2020.)) The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not revealed until the end what actually happens to the person selected by the random [[lottery]]: the selected member of the community is [[stoning|stoned to death]] by the other townspeople.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1948-06-26#folio=024 |title=The New Yorker Digital Edition : Jun 26, 1948 |website=archives.newyorker.com |access-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174409/http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1948-06-26#folio=024 |url-status=live ))</ref>

Jackson and ''The New Yorker'' were both surprised by the initial negative response from readers; subscriptions were canceled and much [[hate mail]] was sent throughout the summer of its first publication, with Jackson receiving at least 10 letters per day.<ref name="Jackson">((cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Shirley |last2=Hyman |first2=Stanley Edgar |title=Come Along with Me; Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures |date=1968 |publisher=Viking Press |location=New York |isbn=9780670231584 |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/comealongwithmep00jack))</ref> The [[Union of South Africa]] banned the story because some parts of Africa still used stoning as a punishment.<ref>((cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Bill |last2=Yost |first2=Peter |last3=Press |first3=Eyal |last4=Sacheli |first4=Liz |last5=Park |first5=Edward |title=The Censoring of 'The Lottery'|journal=The English Journal |date=February 1986 |volume=75 |issue=2 |page=64 |doi=10.2307/817892 |jstor=817892 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/817892))</ref>

The story has been dramatized several times, including as a radio drama, film, and graphic novel. It has been subjected to considerable sociological and literary analysis and has been described as one of the most famous short stories in the history of [[American literature]].<ref>((cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Laurie Lanzen |last2=Abbey |first2=Cherie D. |title=Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers |date=2000 |publisher=Omnigraphics |location=Detroit, Michigan |isbn=9780780804029 |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNL-dM_MgAQC&q=lottery+%22most+famous+short%22 |access-date=June 26, 2012))</ref>

==Plot== 
Details of contemporary small-town American life are embroidered upon a description of an annual rite known as "the lottery". In a small, unnamed village of about 300 residents, the locals are in an excited yet nervous mood on June 27. Children pile up stones as the adults assemble for their annual event, practiced to ensure a good harvest; Old Man Warner quotes an old proverb, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." However, some nearby villages have already discontinued the lottery, and rumors are spreading that others are considering doing the same. Some in the village respond that the lottery has always been conducted and should continue every year henceforth.

The lottery preparations start the night before, with [[coal merchant]] Mr. Summers and [[postmaster]] Mr. Graves drawing up a list of all the extended families in town and preparing one paper slip per family. The slips are folded and placed in an age-stained black wooden box which is stored in a safe at Mr. Summers' office until the lottery is scheduled to begin. 

The initial drawing takes place to choose one family. There is a sense of relief in those not chosen and in one case a family member is sent to pass word to their injured father that their family was not picked. Bill Hutchinson draws the only marked slip in the box, and his wife Tessie complains that he was rushed into making his choice. Since their family consists of only one household, the second drawing to choose a household is skipped.

For the final drawing, one slip is placed in the box for each member of the Hutchinson household: Bill, Tessie, and each of their three children. Each of the five draws a slip, and Tessie gets the marked one. The townspeople, including Tessie's son Davy, pick up the gathered stones and begin throwing them at her as Tessie screams about the unfairness of the lottery.

==Themes==
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===Scapegoating and mob mentality===
One of the major ideas of "The Lottery" is that of a [[scapegoat]]. The act of [[stoning]] someone to death yearly purges the town of the bad and allows for the good. This is hinted in the references to [[agriculture]].

The story also speaks of [[mob psychology]] and the idea that people can [[irrationality|abandon reason]] and act cruelly if they are part of a [[herd mentality|large group of people behaving in the same manner]]. The idyllic setting of the story also demonstrates that violence and evil can take place anywhere and in any context. This also shows how people can turn on each other so easily. When or where it is set, specifically, is never said, leaving some to consider it science fiction.<ref>((cite web |url=https://fictionphile.com/20-most-influential-science-fiction-short-stories-of-the-20th-century/ |title=20 Most Influential Science Fiction Short Stories of the 20th Century |website=Fictionphile |date=February 8, 2019 |access-date=February 9, 2019 |archive-date=June 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614122032/https://fictionphile.com/20-most-influential-science-fiction-short-stories-of-the-20th-century/ |url-status=live ))</ref>

===Blind tradition===
Alongside the [[Herd mentality|mob mentality]], the author illustrates a society that follows tradition without reason, establishing a theme that people should not blindly follow a [[tradition]] that has lost its original meaning. [[Irony]], symbols, and language all contribute to such an interpretation. This message dominates the story, from the initial pleasant description of the town to the surprise ending of the stoning. In the very first paragraph, she describes the setting as "clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full [[summer]] day" (Jackson 31). By invoking a warm and comfortable setting, the author establishes a positive overtone for the beginning of the story. Soon after, she supports this tone by describing how the children innocently play, describing how "Bobby Martin ducked under his mother's grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones" (31). Bobby, due to his naïveté, is innocently laughing about the stones that will soon be used as [[Weapon|murder weapons]].  

Jackson turns to the townspeople, who are wholly committed to the lottery. She makes this painfully clear when Tessie protests “You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!” (45). Tessie protests not the lottery itself, but only the interference during the drawing. She repeats, in the final line of the text, "It isn't fair, it isn't right" (79). Even after being chosen for stoning, Tessie remains loyal to the practice of the lottery, blind to its cruelty even to her death. 

Jackson further illustrates the blindness of the townspeople, showing they have forgotten the tradition's meaning. Describing the black box from which slips are drawn, Jackson writes "the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it" (31). While the physical characteristics of the lottery like the box and slips have been modernized over time, only the moral implication of the murder is unchanged throughout the history of the tradition. The story even states that "because so much of the [[ritual]] had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations" (31). Specifically, Mr. Summers realizes that much of the town's tradition has been weakened since its inception, and he actively modernizes it. However, this society does not notice this due to its status of "tradition," regardless of its true meaning. The story speaks about those who blindly follow traditions without regard for the consequences. <ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/topics/lottery/themes |title=The Lottery Themes |website=eNotes |access-date=November 7, 2016 |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824094246/https://www.enotes.com/topics/lottery/themes |url-status=live ))</ref>

==Reception==
===Readers===
''[[The New Yorker]]'' received a "torrent of letters" inquiring about the story, "the most mail the magazine had ever received in response to a work of fiction".<ref name="TNYletters">((Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |title='The Lottery' Letters |last=Franklin |first=Ruth |date=June 25, 2013 |access-date=March 14, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140626/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |url-status=live ))</ref> Many readers demanded an explanation of the situation in the story, and a month after the initial publication, Jackson responded in the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' (July 22, 1948):
((quote|Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.))

[[File:North Bennington, Vermont.jpg|thumb|North Bennington]]
Jackson lived in [[North Bennington|North Bennington, Vermont]], and her comment reveals that she had Bennington in mind when she wrote "The Lottery". In a 1960 lecture (printed in her 1968 collection ''Come Along with Me'') she recalled the hate mail she received in 1948:
((quote|One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted and enriched and delighted by the stories I wrote. It had simply never occurred to me that these millions and millions of people might be so far from being uplifted that they would sit down and write me letters I was downright scared to open; of the three-hundred-odd letters that I received that summer I can count only thirteen that spoke kindly to me, and they were mostly from friends. Even my mother scolded me: "Dad and I did not care at all for your story in ''The New Yorker''", she wrote sternly; "it does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?"<ref name="Jackson"/>))

''The New Yorker'' kept no records of the phone calls, but letters addressed to Jackson were forwarded to her. That summer she regularly took home 10 to 12 forwarded letters each day. She also received weekly packages from ''The New Yorker'' containing letters and questions addressed to the magazine or editor [[Harold Ross]], plus [[carbon copies]] of the magazine's responses mailed to letter writers.

((quote|Curiously, there are three main themes which dominate the letters of that first summer—three themes which might be identified as bewilderment, speculation and plain old-fashioned abuse. In the years since then, during which the story has been anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even—in one completely mystifying transformation—made into a [[ballet]], the tenor of letters I receive has changed. I am addressed more politely, as a rule, and the letters largely confine themselves to questions like what does this story mean? The general tone of the early letters, however, was a kind of wide-eyed, shocked innocence. People at first were not so much concerned with what the story meant; what they wanted to know was where these lotteries were held, and whether they could go there and watch.|Shirley Jackson, "Come along with me"<ref name=Jackson/>))

===Critical interpretations===
Helen E. Nebeker's essay (("'))The Lottery': Symbolic Tour de Force" in ''American Literature'' (March 1974) claims that every major name in the story has a special significance.
((quote|By the end of the first two paragraphs, Jackson has carefully indicated the season, [[summer solstice|time of ancient excess and sacrifice]], and the stones, most ancient of sacrificial weapons. She has also hinted at larger meanings through name symbolism. "[[Martin (name)|Martin]]", Bobby's surname, derives from a Middle English word signifying ape or monkey. This, juxtaposed with "Harry Jones" (in all its commonness) and "Dickie Delacroix" (of-the-[[Christian cross|Cross]]) urges us to an awareness of [[the Hairy Ape]] within us all, veneered by a Christianity as perverted as "Delacroix", vulgarized to "Dellacroy" by the villagers. Horribly, at the end of the story, it will be Mrs. Delacroix, warm and friendly in her natural state, who will select a stone "so large she had to pick it up with both hands" and will encourage her friends to follow suit... "Mr. Adams", at once progenitor and martyr in the Judeo-Christian myth of man, stands with "Mrs. Graves"—the ultimate refuge or escape of all mankind—in the forefront of the crowd.))

Fritz Oehlschlaeger, in "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery(('")) (''Essays in Literature'', 1988), wrote:
((quote|The name of Jackson's victim links her to [[Anne Hutchinson]], whose [[Antinomian]] beliefs, found to be [[heresy|heretical]] by the [[Puritan]] hierarchy, resulted in her banishment from [[Massachusetts]] in 1638. While Tessie Hutchinson is no spiritual rebel, to be sure, Jackson's allusion to Anne Hutchinson reinforces her suggestions of a rebellion lurking within the women of her imaginary village. Since Tessie Hutchinson is the protagonist of "The Lottery", there is every indication that her name is indeed an allusion to Anne Hutchinson, the American religious dissenter. She was [[excommunication|excommunicated]] despite an unfair trial, while Tessie questions the tradition and correctness of the lottery as well as her humble status as a wife. It might as well be this insubordination that leads to her selection by the lottery and stoning by the angry mob of villagers.))

The 1992 ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Dog of Death]]" features a scene referring to "The Lottery". During the peak of the lottery fever in [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]], news anchor [[Kent Brockman]] announces on television that people hoping to get tips on how to win the jackpot have borrowed every available copy of [[Shirley Jackson]]'s book ''The Lottery'' at the local library. One of them is [[Homer Simpson|Homer]], who throws the book into the fire after Brockman reveals that "Of course, the book does not contain any hints on how to win the lottery. It is, rather, a chilling tale of conformity gone mad."<ref name="Murphy">((cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Bernice M. |title=Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy |date=2005 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |location=Jefferson |isbn=9780786423125 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZIjIB0JA4MC&q=%22Dog+of+Death%22++simpsons&pg=PA1 |access-date=August 23, 2017 |chapter=Introduction: 'Do You Know Who I Am?', Reconsidering Shirley Jackson |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418185132/https://books.google.com/books?id=sZIjIB0JA4MC&q=%22Dog+of+Death%22++simpsons&pg=PA1 |url-status=live ))</ref> In her book ''Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy'', Bernice Murphy comments that this scene displays some of the most contradictory things about Jackson: "It says a lot about the visibility of Jackson's most notorious tale that more than 50 years after its initial creation it is still famous enough to warrant a mention in the world's most famous sitcom. The fact that Springfield's citizenry also miss the point of Jackson's story completely ... can perhaps be seen as an indication of a more general misrepresentation of Jackson and her work."<ref name="Murphy"/>

In "Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery(('")) (December 2004), Patrick J. Shields suggests there is a connection between the death penalty and "The Lottery" when writing:
((quote|Though these ritual executions seem to have the support of the entire community and have been carried out for as long as everyone can seem to remember, a doubt seems to linger. Mrs. Adams tells us, "Some places have already quit the lotteries" (S. Jackson, 1999, p.77). On another level, we as readers feel quite uncomfortable observing such blind obedience to tradition among the villagers. And further, we as readers may be likely to make a connection as we witness modern day executions and realize that there is arbitrariness in these instances as well... It is hard for some to imagine abolition of [[capital punishment]] in our culture. They equate abolition with undermining law and morality. But it is precisely law and morality that are being undermined by the arbitrary practice of capital punishment.<ref>((cite journal |last1=Shields |first1=Patrick J. |title=Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' |journal=Contemporary Justice Review |date=December 2004 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=411–419|doi=10.1080/1028258042000305884 |s2cid=144322184 ))</ref> ))
[[File:1969 draft lottery photo.jpg|thumb|Image of the [[Draft lottery (1969)|1969 draft lottery]] to choose conscripts for the [[Vietnam War]].]]
Others have made comparisons between the lottery and the [[Conscription in the United States|military draft]], whereby young men aged 18–25 were selected at random for military service by the [[Selective Service System]].((cn|date=October 2023)) The story was written just three years after the end of [[World War II]], in which ten million American men were drafted and over 400,000 died, and was published just two days after the enactment of the [[Military Selective Service Act]], which re-established the draft.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/23/124551/-|title=The Lottery and the Draft|website=Daily Kos))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tw83AQAAIAAJ&dq=lottery+conscription+shirley+jackson&pg=PA1087|title=The Selective Service System: Its Operation, Practices, and Procedures: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 39|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and|last=Procedure|date=October 25, 1969|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books))</ref>

==Adaptations==
In addition to numerous reprints in magazines, anthologies, and textbooks as well as comic adaptation, <ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2020/05/22 |title=Tom the Dancing Bug May 22, 2020 |access-date=May 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525234724/https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2020/05/22 |url-status=live ))</ref> "The Lottery" has been adapted for radio, live television, a 1953 ballet, films in 1969 and 1997, a TV movie, an opera,((cn|date=September 2022)) and a one-act play by Thomas Martin.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/182918/70-years-shirley-jacksons-lottery|title=70 Years of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" &#124; H-Announce &#124; H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org))</ref>

===1951 radio version===
A radio adaptation by [[NBC]] was broadcast March 14, 1951, as an episode of the anthology series ''[[NBC Presents: Short Story]]''. Writer [[Ernest Kinoy]]<ref name="Radio Goldindex">((cite web |last=Goldin |first=J. David |title=Radio Goldindex |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=NBC's+Short+Story |work=NBC Short Story |access-date=July 9, 2012 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305105250/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?programname=nbc's+short+story |url-status=dead ))</ref><ref name="Generic Radio Workshop">((cite web |title=NBC Short Story |url=http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=I0XJ05G4 |work=The Lottery |publisher=The Generic Radio Workshop Vintage Radio Script Library |access-date=July 9, 2012 |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824054155/http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=I0XJ05G4 |url-status=live ))</ref> expanded the plot to include scenes at various characters' homes before the lottery and a conversation between Bill and Tessie Hutchinson (Bill suggests leaving town before the lottery happens, but Tessie refuses because she wants to go shopping at Floyd Summers's store after the lottery is over). Kinoy deleted certain characters, including two of the Hutchinsons' three children, and added at least one character, John Gunderson, a schoolteacher who publicly objects to the lottery being held, and at first refuses to draw. Finally, Kinoy included an ending scene describing the townspeople's post-lottery activities and an afterword, in which the narrator suggested: "Next year, maybe there won't be a Lottery. It's up to all of us. Chances are, there will be, though."<ref name="Generic Radio Workshop"/> The production was directed by [[Andrew C. Love]].<ref name="Radio Goldindex"/><ref name=audio>((cite web |title=NBC Short Story |url=http://matineeclassics.com/radio/1951/nbc_presents_short_story/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005128/http://matineeclassics.com/radio/1951/nbc_presents_short_story/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |work=The Lottery |publisher=Matinee Classics |access-date=July 9, 2012 |format=audio))</ref>

===Television adaptations===
Ellen M. Violett wrote the first television adaptation, seen on [[Albert McCleery]]'s ''[[Cameo Theatre]]'' (1950–1955).<ref>((Cite web |date=2011-07-19 |title=The Paley Center for Media ((!)) She Made It ((!)) Ellen M. Violett |url=http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=173# |access-date=2023-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719000041/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=173# |archive-date=July 19, 2011 ))</ref>

The story served as the inspiration for the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Britney's New Look]]".

===1969 film===
Larry Yust's short film ''[[The Lottery (1969 film)|The Lottery]]'' (1969), produced as part of ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''(('))s "Short Story Showcase" series, was ranked by the Academic Film Archive "as one of the two bestselling educational films ever". It has an accompanying ten-minute commentary film ''Discussion of "The Lottery"'' by [[University of Southern California]] English professor James Durbin. Featuring [[Ed Begley Jr.]] as Jack Watson in his third film, Yust's adaptation has an atmosphere of naturalism and small-town authenticity with its shots of [[pickup truck]]s in [[Fellows, California]], and the townspeople of Fellows and [[Taft, California]].<ref>((Cite web |url=https://lithub.com/watch-the-creepy-1969-short-film-adaptation-of-the-lottery/ |title=Emily Temple, 'Watch the Creepy 1969 Short Film Adaptation of "The Lottery", Literary Hub |date=December 14, 2016 |access-date=December 9, 2019 |archive-date=December 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209172345/https://lithub.com/watch-the-creepy-1969-short-film-adaptation-of-the-lottery/ |url-status=live ))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/ |title=Ed Begley Jr filmography, Internet Movie Database |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=December 9, 2019 |archive-date=February 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207010633/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000893/ |url-status=live ))</ref>

===1996 TV film===
Anthony Spinner's feature-length TV film ''[[The Lottery (1996 film)|The Lottery]]'', which premiered September 29, 1996, on NBC, expands upon the original Shirley Jackson story. It was nominated for a 1997 [[Saturn Award]] for Best Single Genre Television Presentation.

===Graphic novel===
In 2016, [[Miles Hyman]], a grandson of Jackson, created a graphic novel adaption titled ''Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation''. His version abbreviates the wording of the source work and relies on graphics to portray other aspects of the narrative. He also wrote his own introduction. Alyson Ward of the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' wrote the graphics "push a little further than his grandmother's words did", though she stated Hyman's version reveals details of the story earlier than in the original work.<ref>((cite web|last=Ward|first=Alyson|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/books/article/Small-town-horror-The-Lottery-gets-10058134.php|title=Small-town horror: 'The Lottery' gets graphic-novel treatment|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=October 21, 2016|accessdate=December 11, 2021))</ref>

===Video games===
In the 2010 video game ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', a location in the game, Vault 11, takes inspirations from the story, with a main difference being a tangible threat instead of the superficial threat of a bad harvest.<ref>((cite web | url=https://blogs.ubc.ca/angryvietnamese/2017/08/30/vault-11/ | title=Vault 11: A Story of Democracy, Random Persecution, and Obedience &#124; the Angry Vietnamese ))</ref>

===Music===
[[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] used ''The Lottery'' as inspiration for his music video for the song "[[Man That You Fear]]" off his album ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''. <br/>

[[The Used]] released a song based on the book by the same name, "The Lottery" on their 2020 album ''[[Heartwork (The Used album)|Heartwork]]''. <ref> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga2A4cdFWyA </ref>

==See also==
* "[[The Lottery in Babylon]]"
* [[Achan (biblical figure)]]

==Notes==
((notelist|))

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ((cite book |last1=Oppenheimer |first1=Judy |title=Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson |date=1988 |publisher=Putnam |location=New York |isbn=0399133569 |url=https://archive.org/details/privatedemonslif00oppe))

==External links==
* [http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1948-06-26#folio=024 Read "The Lottery" in the ''New Yorker'' archive] (subscription required) – or [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery without subscription] 
*[http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2019/09/jackson_lottery.pdf Read in full via Middlebury College]
*[http://www.salon.com/1997/01/06/jackson_3/ ''Salon'': Jonathan Lethem: "Monstrous Acts and Little Murders"]
* [http://www.shmoop.com/lottery-shirley-jackson/ "The Lottery" study guide and teaching guide]&nbsp;– analysis, themes, quotes, multimedia for students and teachers
* [http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/a-m-homes-reads-shirley-jackson ''The New Yorker'' podcast: A. M. Homes discusses and reads "The Lottery"]
* [https://www.archive.org/download/NBC_short_story/510314_04_The_Lottery.mp3 ''NBC Short Story'': "The Lottery" (March 14, 1951)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060630113430/http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/mp3/940222_harp_01_ITH.mp3 "The Lottery" read by Maureen Stapleton]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080502180310/http://www.wiredforbooks.org/judyoppenheimer/index.htm 1988 interview with Judy Oppenheimer]
* [http://woub.org/2015/07/15/the-lottery/ Audio dramatization from WOUB Public Media (Athens, Ohio)]
* [https://www.thefreshreads.com/the-lottery-summary/ Summary of The Lottery]
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