Love In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

There are 7.125 billion people who live on Earth. Each and every human being has at least a fraction of love in them, in some a surplus. Therefore, love can be found just about anywhere. Love is such a huge word. Love can mean so many different things, it all depends on the person asked. Some of the different forms of love are, healthy and unhealthy love, passions, attraction, homosexuality, etc. The majority of people have had at least some type of love throughout their life. Some people unfortunately do not have a family that has loved them all through their life. For some, love is present in their life constantly. There are a lot of things that play a role in how people love, and what they consider love to be. Biology, physcology, attraction,

The lottery is held every year in this little town. It has been a local event for over a decade. The surrounding areas also used to hold their own lottery in their town. Now the majority of the surrounding towns stopped holding such an event as the lottery. They stopped the event because they saw just how cruel it was. During the drawing there is a lack of love. The people of the town could not care less about what happens to the other families. All they care about is the fact that they do not want their family to get stuck with the dot. With that being said, there is a lot of love that goes on in the families during the drawing. The families all worry about the piece of paper that the male of their household picks. They all have fear and anticipation as their loved one goes up to draw. After Tessie finds out that her family is the one to get stoned, she starts to go crazy. Out of the love for her family, Tessie believes that it is a mistake. Her family could not have possibly be the one. Tessie went along with the drawing and slowly watches as her family went up to draw their piece of paper, from youngest to oldest. When they all open their pieces of paper, once again Tessie goes crazy. This time, because she was the one who picked the black dot. Once again she believes that it is a mistake (Jackson). Lottery is only one tiny way it is expressed; it can also be found in “A Wagner

In Tennessee Williams´ “A Streetcar Named Desire,¨ both of types of love, unhealthy and healthy, are present. One form of love found in the story, is the love story between Mitch and Blanche. In the past, Blanche has had many struggles with love. Love means so many different things to Blanche. She was raised in a family around a father and an uncle who paid women for love. Growing up around men loving women the way her father and uncle did, it changed the way she viewed love. Earlier in her life she struggled with true love. Blanche had some rough patches in her life. As a young adult, Blanche got into prostitution. She did not see much wrong with it, since it was what she grew up around. That type of unhealthy love was just so natural for her. When Blanche met Mitch, she tried to have a healthy relationship with Mitch. Blanche actually saw something between the two of them. Seeing such positive things for their future, Blanche is taking things slow, because she believes that he could change her unhealthy lifestyle. The two of them both felt that there was something between them, until Stanley got involved. After Stan found out Mitch liked Blanche, he went around digging up negative things about Blanche that had happened in the past. Stan thought that he was being a good friend by doing this without Mitch knowing. Stanley was only using his and Blanches unhealthy relationship to get back at her. After Stan