The Lottery Ticket

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Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know? Read him a bedtime story! There is nowhere to walk; one can't go out for days together; one has to pace up and down the room, looking despondently at the grey window. And he began thinking how nice it would be in late autumn to go abroad somewhere to the South of France He walked about the room and went on thinking. It occurred to him: It is pleasant to travel alone, or in the society of light, careless women who live in the present, and not such as think and talk all the journey about nothing but their children, sigh, and tremble with dismay over every farthing.

Ivan Dmitritch imagined his wife in the train with a multitude of parcels, baskets, and bags; she would be sighing over something, complaining that the train made her head ache, that she had spent so much money At the stations he would continually be having to run for boiling water, bread and butter. She wouldn't have dinner because of its being too dear Besides, what is the use of her going abroad?

What does she want there? She would shut herself up in the hotel, and not let me out of her sight And for the first time in his life his mind dwelt on the fact that his wife had grown elderly and plain, and that she was saturated through and through with the smell of cooking, while he was still young, fresh, and healthy, and might well have got married again.

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What would she make of it? And yet she would go, of course In reality it is all one to her, whether it is Naples or Klin.

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She would only be in my way. I should be dependent upon her. I can fancy how, like a regular woman, she will lock the money up as soon as she gets it She will look after her relations and grudge me every farthing. Ivan Dmitritch thought of her relations. All those wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles would come crawling about as soon as they heard of the winning ticket, would begin whining like beggars, and fawning upon them with oily, hypocritical smiles.

If they were given anything, they would ask for more; while if they were refused, they would swear at them, slander them, and wish them every kind of misfortune.

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

Ivan Dmitritch remembered his own relations, and their faces, at which he had looked impartially in the past, struck him now as repulsive and hateful. And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and hateful. Anger surged up in his heart against her, and he thought malignantly:. In The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov we have the theme of hope, aspiration, selfishness, power, greed, control, freedom and satisfaction.

Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and from the beginning of the story the reader realises that Chekhov may be exploring the theme of hope and aspiration. Both Ivan and his wife have aspirations to better their lives and see the possibility of winning the lottery as the avenue to a better way of life.

However it is interesting that both dream individual dreams about what they would do if they won the lottery. From being a comfortably well-off middle class family the reader senses that both Ivan and his wife are stricken by very human emotions. They both forget where they are in life and rather than accept their position and be happy.

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A sense of greed enters their lives. Ivan imagines himself to be something that he is not with unrealistic dreams of owning a large estate where he is master. If anything Ivan lets his imagination run wild without any due consideration for his wife. Something that becomes clearer to the reader at the end of the story. Ivan thinks only of himself when he imagines what life would be like should his wife win the lottery.

He takes complete control of the situation. It is also interesting that Ivan sees himself as being more important than he is. Ivan is thinking selfishly and only of himself. If anything there is a sense that Ivan is acting as though he is the most important person in his relationship with his family. Again no real thought is given to any of his family.