The Lottery: Challenges to Social Order The rigid structure of society reinforces order and promotes conformity of all classes TO THE SOCIAL NORM, but an individual WHO REBELS AGAINST established NORMS poses a threat TO SOCIETY AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. Shirley Jackson, the author of The Lottery, conveys original thinking, which could lead to rebellious impulses. (repressed by society to maintain a rigid social order) The lottery enforces an unfair distinction in class status between men and women, WHICH IS A SOCIAL NORM. Women are subordinate in the social structure of the village, as shown when Mrs. Hutchinson\\'s family is chosen in the first round. Objecting that her daughter and son-in-law \\"didn\\'t take their chance,\\" (562) Mr. Summers reminds her that \\"daughters draw with their husbands\\' families,\\" (562) showing....

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