The Lottery The Lottery is a story of a small farming community and a sick tradition that they follow each year. When the story starts off, the reader is unaware of the events that'll happen during the day - the boys gather rocks innocently enough and the rest of the community gathers for some event in which the reader has no knowledge of. Right before the lottery starts, Tessie Hutchinson arrives late, saying that she …showed first 75 words of 341 total…

…showed last 75 words of 341 total…and society being her community and the insistance on the lottery. The setting of the story is in a small farming community which is in the older days because they feel the need to carry out a tradition in order to have a good crop for that year. For the theme, the story follows a theme that all traditions may not be good - therefore urging the reader to notice which ones are and aren't.