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Symbolism The Lottery In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” set in a small fictional town on June 27, the townspeople gather to conduct a lottery. At the end of the drawing, one of the townspeople will be dead. The symbols chosen to use are Old Man Warner, the black box, and the stones. Old Man Warner is the oldest man in the town and he states in the story, “seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery”; he is the only person to survive the lottery for seventy-seven years. We can look at Old M