" while the girls stand aside "talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys." (259) Critic Peter Kosenko explains that Jackson distinguishes male and female authority early in the story by showing how the children listen to their father's orders, but not their mother's: (225) "Soon the women...began to call their children...Bobby Martin ducked under his mother's grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones. His father spoke up sharply, and Bobby came quickly and took his place between his father and his eldest brother"(Lottery, 292). Jackson gives very plain, solid-sounding names to her characters: Adams, Warner, Dunbar, Martin, Hutchinson, etc. "The name Mr. Summers is particularly suitable for sunny, jovial Joe Summers; it emphasizes the surface tone of the piece and underscores the ultimate irony. Mr. Graves-the postmaster and the assistant to Mr. Summers in the administration of the lottery-has a name that might well signify the tragic undercurrent, which does not become meaningful until the end of the story" (Friedman, 64) Oehlschlaeger explains his meaning behind the name Hutchinson. "The name of Jackson's victim links her to Anne Hutchinson, whose Antinomian beliefs, found to be 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"(261) Helen E. Nebeker explains that why traditions of men in "The Lottery" must be examined more closely: "Until enough men are touched strongly enough by the horror of their ritualistic, irrational actions to reject the long-perverted ritual, to destroy the box completely-or to make, if necessary, a new one reflective of their conditions and needs of life-man will never free himself from his primitive nature and is ultimately doomed. Miss Jac...
