The stories by Shirley Jackson and Kate Chopin

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The stories by Shirley Jackson and Kate Chopin depict change through their stories, but
in different ways. The stories which will be analyzed in this essay are The Lottery by Shirley
Jackson; The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and Desiree's Baby - Kate Chopin. These three
stories have similarities as well as dissimilarities when it comes to literary elements which have
been employed by the authors in them. Irony and foreshowing to depict different shades in the
story and often deceive the readers when there are changes. One character from each of the story
will be assessed to trace their developments and purpose and the stories.
In The Lottery, Shirley Jackson projects a town full of people who have a tradition with
lottery yet are afraid of the change which might come along with it. They get opportunities every
year to change their fate. Tessie Hutchinson is the loser of the lottery who is also very
unfortunate. She appears to be different and threatening from the other people of the town. She
arrives late and the crowd which had already gathered had to give her way to reach her family.
This is a breach of propriety as everyone else arrives on time except her. The author has the
character to stand out as a free spirit who could forget about the significant day because of her
daily chores. She picks up the paper, when her time comes. She gets the market paper, on seeing
which she exclaims of unfairness. She is the only person who protests against the system of
lottery, which is a tradition. The lottery which she chooses, had ‘stone to death’ written on it. She
is the unlucky person who gets to be stoned to death while she has no other choice. She protests
against the lottery for the change which has come in her life but was unfair. However, she gets
silenced for choosing to speak for the unfairness which she feels, is the outcome of the lottery
and brings the undeniable change which the people of the town feared (Robinson, 2019). The
character is significant point the irony associated with fate and changes. The author uses the
theme of prophecy as an emotional element bearing satirical meaning.