Next thing you know, they'll want to go back to living in caves, no one works anymore, live like that for a while. There was a saying about "June lottery, corn will be heavy soon." First we would all eat stewed chickweed and acorns. There has always been a lottery (Jackson, 4)." In this quote, Old Man Warner calls people who give up the lottery as fools and barbarians. Ironically, the lottery he is playing right now is the real barbaric action. This is another ironic part that Shirley Jackson reveals in this story: the people who criticize others who perform barbaric actions are the ones who are actually performing the real barbaric action “The Lottery” takes the classic theme of man's inhumanity towards man and gives him an added twist: the randomness inherent in brutality. It anticipates how we would come to understand the twentieth century's unique lessons about the capacity of ordinary citizens to do evil, from the Nazi camp bureaucracy. Franklin, 2, 1948, three years after the World War). II, Shirley Jackson wrote this story full of irony and sarcasm. Furthermore, this village is surprisingly similar to NAZI Germany. They are all convinced by the custom determined by someone and the they follow blindly like the villagers do the lottery. “Warner” should be a character like that