The Lottery and Other Stories

Discuss how the following themes is developed in the story

Jackson's themes usually come back to the evil found in ordinary things, the existence of the grotesque in the ordinary world. "That the familiar can become alien, that the level flow of existence can warp in the batting of an eye, was the theme to which she most often returned."

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As exemplified most clearly by "The Lottery," Jackson's vision of horror is not limited to haunted houses or exotic locations. On the contrary, horror is engendered in the mind, in the banal brutality of everyday individuals, who may be mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands. Unhappiness, sheer dissatisfaction with one's life, can lead to the blurring of reality and fantasy, and even madness. And in this madness, horror can come alive in the most mundane of settings and situations.

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