The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is 1948 short story about a little village in which it seems every year on June 27 they hold a lottery. However, it is no ordinary lottery, in this lottery the person who ends up ‘winning’, actually loses. What they end up losing is their life, because in this lottery whoever gets the card with black dot on it is stoned to death by the rest of the community. The whole community has to participates in this tradition, and while some are more apprehensive about the whole ordeal, others are completely fine with all that goes on. One minor character who stands out a little bit more is Mrs. Delcroix. She seems like a typical housewife in this community, however it can be thought she has underlying issues. Mrs. Delcroix
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Delacroix can be seen as one of the few people in the village who are wholly content with the tradition of the lottery. After Mrs. Hutchinson is chosen through the process of elimination, every member of the community has to go to and pick up their stones. At this moment Mrs. Delcroix picks up one of the larger stones, and then tells one of the other ladies, Mrs. Dunbar, to hurry up. “...there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands...” (Jackson). It just goes to show unconnected she is will the people that are there, who to at least think that they are friends. However she goes on to pick up a large stone to throw at Tess. “However, emotional arousal has a much more complex relation in the long run. Individual differences in the propensity to be aroused seem to interact with learning experiences to produce new individual differences in responsiveness to violence that have lasting effects on the risk for aggressive behavior. As a group these effects have come to be known in the literature as sensitization effects and desensitization effects. Sensitization refers to the process of becoming more likely to experience negative effect and arousal from scenes that are “provoking,” whereas desensitization refers to the process of becoming less likely to experience negative effect and arousal from scenes that are very violent” (Huesman). This, to some degree, explains how the prolonged exposure to the violence of the lottery has desensitized her, and the way she can friendly with other but still have connection to them. That is another detail that can be connected with her picking a larger stone. She had just been talking to Tess in a friendly manner, and then can turn around completely to have no problem in participation in her gruesome death. She seems to have no emotional connection to Tess or even a conscious to tell her what is right and
Delacroix can be seen as one of the few people in the village who are wholly content with the tradition of the lottery. After Mrs. Hutchinson is chosen through the process of elimination, every member of the community has to go to and pick up their stones. At this moment Mrs. Delcroix picks up one of the larger stones, and then tells one of the other ladies, Mrs. Dunbar, to hurry up. “...there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands...” (Jackson). It just goes to show unconnected she is will the people that are there, who to at least think that they are friends. However she goes on to pick up a large stone to throw at Tess. “However, emotional arousal has a much more complex relation in the long run. Individual differences in the propensity to be aroused seem to interact with learning experiences to produce new individual differences in responsiveness to violence that have lasting effects on the risk for aggressive behavior. As a group these effects have come to be known in the literature as sensitization effects and desensitization effects. Sensitization refers to the process of becoming more likely to experience negative effect and arousal from scenes that are “provoking,” whereas desensitization refers to the process of becoming less likely to experience negative effect and arousal from scenes that are very violent” (Huesman). This, to some degree, explains how the prolonged exposure to the violence of the lottery has desensitized her, and the way she can friendly with other but still have connection to them. That is another detail that can be connected with her picking a larger stone. She had just been talking to Tess in a friendly manner, and then can turn around completely to have no problem in participation in her gruesome death. She seems to have no emotional connection to Tess or even a conscious to tell her what is right and