Love and Hate

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” are two works of literature that one would think would not be comparable. “The Lottery” is a story about foreshadowing while “Trifles” is a play and portrays the uglier side of life for women in the early 1900’s in a round about nice kind of way. The main characters are both women who lived at the wrong time in American History and were ultimately looked down upon because of their gender. Their lives were both filled with solitude, injustice and inequality. The issues that Tessie, the main character from “The Lottery” and Mrs. Wright, the main character in “Trifles”, are the same issues that every woman will or had to deal just as Mrs. Hale says in “Trifles” “We all go through the same things – it’s all just a different kind of the same thing” (1182).
“The Lottery” is a prime example for how women were treated back before the 19th Amendment (women received the ri...