ter Kosenkoexplains that Jackson distinguishes male and female authority early in the story by showing how the children listen totheir father's orders, but not their mother's: (225) "Soon the women...began to call their children...Bobby Martinducked under his mother's grasping hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones. His father spoke up sharply, andBobby came quickly and took his place between his father and his eldest brother"(Lottery, 292). Jackson gives veryplain, 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 andunderscores the ultimate irony. Mr. Graves-the postmaster and the assistant to Mr. Summers in the administration of thelottery-has a name that might well signify the tragic undercurrent, which does not become meaningful until the end of thestory" (Friedman, 64) Oehlschlaeger explains his meaning behind the name Hutchinson. "The name of Jackson's victimlinks her to Anne Hutchinson, whose Antinomian beliefs, found to be heretical by the Puritan hierarchy, resulted in herbanishment from Massachusetts in 1638. While Tessie Hutchinson is no spiritual rebel, to be sure, Jackson's allusion toAnne 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 thelong-perverted ritual, to destroy the box completely-or to make, if necessary, a new one reflective of their conditions andneeds of life-man will never free himself from his primitive nature and is ultimately doomed. Miss Jackson does notoffer us much hope-they only talk of giving up the lottery in the north village....(107) The second work of Jackson t...
