The story contrasts commonplace details of contemporary life with the barbarism of the ritualistic lottery. The setting is a small American town where the locals display a celebratory mood as they gather on June 27 for their annual lottery. After a person from each family draws a small piece of paper, one slip with a black spot indicates the Hutchinson family has been chosen. When each member of that family draws again to narrow the selection, the family's mother, Tessie Hutchinson, is the final choice. She is then stoned by everyone present, including her own family. The reader, though, does not know the true situation until the first stone strikes Tessie Hutchinson, although the tone becomes darker as her fate draws nearer and nearer.
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