Although the execution of a life lived in The Lottery of Shirley Jackson and The Necklace of Guy de Maupassant, the two stories that are very different the one from the other other. The authors indicate several themes and characters in their story. The story The Lottery begins with the setting of a town meeting. In the center of the town square, all the families gather for a black box full of paper for each head of the family. The only family that is chosen must choose a sheet of paper again. In this story, it's the Hutchison family. Mrs. Hutchison was chosen and to be chosen means having the death of friends and family upon her shoulders. In the story, Shirley Jackson used one of life's most powerful weapons, peer pressure. Tradition plays an important role in the lottery; Peer pressure is the backbone of the lottery. It's been done for decades and decades. “There has always been a lottery,” Old Man Warner stated in the story. When you have peer pressure, you really have fear that motivates the people of the city. “Some places have already abandoned lotteries.” said Mrs. Adams. "N...