At the beginning of the story, we see her wanting to go to the lottery. She was laughing, joking and encouraging her husband to go get a drawing when he didn't move immediately. She would never have suspected that her family and, above all, herself would be chosen. Jackson creates a great contrast between Tessie's nonchalance and the nervousness of the audience (Yarmove). When his family is chosen, his character changes knowing that there is the possibility of his own death. Tessie's change in character is shocking, but coincides with the Holocaust. It symbolizes the human instinct for survival and tries to offer its children and their families to reduce its chances of death. In Yarmove's analysis of Jackson's work, he writes "It is the last peevish complaint of a hypocrite who has been hoisted by his own petard" to drive this thought home. The Nazis involved in rounding up "minor" people, along with anyone who helped them, did so because they were naive enough to believe that they would not be killed, or because they believed in the cause. Tessie symbolizes those who did it because they thought they wouldn't