Shirley Jackson's argument in "The Lottery" is that everything is not what it seems.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is similar to "The Lottery" because each have unique ways of telling the story through point of views that build suspense for the audience while reading it.
I think the theme of the "The Lottery" relates to the real world because people do not always get what they expect. For example, when someone walks into a store, and a shirt is on sale for $15.00 when the original price was $25.00, but they end up paying the original price.
If Shirley Jackson had decided to write this as an expository piece of rhetoric rather than as a fictional story, it would have caused the audience to be less engaged in the reader. A story draws a person in because it's fictional, an essay too literal.
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