DISCUSSION

CHAPTER IV
DISCUSSION

In this chapter, the writer analyzes the capitalist’s domination found in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. This story highlights the phenomena of the capitalist society that has successfully maintained the lottery as its “tradition” which is under the control of capitalist. The writer elaborates all things dealing with capitalist into four sub chapters to answer the statement of the problems.

4.1 General Description of Character in Jackson’s The Lottery
There several characters that are discussed in this sub chapter. They are Mr. Joe Summers, Mr. Graves, Mr. Martin and Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson.

4.1.1 Mr. Joe Summers
Mr. Joe Summers is the main character of the story, because his character is the most dominant than other character. He is the one of the leaders who is important in the town. He is joyful man that has big coal factory that most of the workers are the villagers in the village. Although he is a rich man, his happiness is not complete because he does not have children and his wife is carping.
Mr. Joe Summers likes wearing a clean white shirt and blue jeans. He is not too tall and little fat. He wears blue jeans in order to convince the villagers that he is just an ordinary person. He also wears a clean white shirt, a garment which is more appropriate to his high class. He wears both because he will elaborate the capitalist and the villagers. It can be seen in the following statement:

Mr. Summers was very good at all this; in his clean white shirt and blue jeans with one hand resting carelessly on the black box he seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins (1948: 2).

He is a well respected man in the town because of his honesty and politeness. It is described when he is waited with polite expression while Mrs. Dunbar answered his question. This quotation below shows how politeness he is to the villagers:

Mr. Summers consulted his list. "Clyde Dunbar." he said. "That's right. He's broke his leg, hasn't he? Who's drawing for him?" "Me. I guess," a woman said and Mr. Summers turned to look at her. "Wife draws for her husband." Mr. Summers said. "Don't you have a grown boy to do it for you, Janey?" Although Mr. Summers and everyone else in the village knew the answer perfectly well, it was the business of the official of the lottery to ask such questions formally. Mr. Summers waited with an expression of polite interest while Mrs. Dunbar answered. Mr. Summers waited with an expression of polite interest while Mrs. Dunbar answered (1948: 2).

Mr. Joe Summers is a person who invests capital in a coal business. He is the one who has accumulated capital. He dominates the villagers that are made up of workers of labors. The marxist critics point out is how Mr. Joe Summers who would have been one of the wealthier citizens, leads the lottery with money controling the people activities.
He has round character because he has more than one side characteristic. He is friendly to the villagers but he also devotes the villagers’ activities like he does not only carry the lottery. He also conducts many other events in the town such as the square dance, the teen club and the Halloween program. He is also a static character because he does not show any change of development of his nature character. He does not develop from the beginning until the end of the story. He still dominates the civil activity until the end of the story. He has a big power in the town. He has leisure time and money to allow him to do other than work to earn a living. He is also the head of administrations in the lottery. This shows that he has capital control to the villagers. It can be seen in the following passage:

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