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Character Analysis: The Lottery

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The Lottery In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the characters have different feelings about The Lottery.One of the characters, Tessie Hutchings feels that The Lottery is unfair. This happens when Tessie 's family is chosen and she all of a sudden thinks The Lottery is unfair. Tessie complains that Mr. Summers didn 't give her husband enough time to choose so that why her family got chosen. Some of the characters think the exact opposite they think The Lottery is fair. Mr Warner thinks the exact opposite he loves The Lottery and thinks it should continue. Mr Warner states clearly that he loves The Lottery also states that the kid complain about it and nothing is ever good enough for them. Maybe he believes in it so much

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