Abstract :
This paper studied about the social classes and the effect of social classes in
Shirley Jackson?s short story The Lottery . The writer used qualitative method
and Marxism approach to analyze social classes in this short story . the writer
found that the short story ? The Lottery? by Shirley Jackson showed social
classes are divided into two main classes : upper class or the bourgeoisie and
lower class or the proletariat . The member of the bourgeoisie class are
Mr.Summer,Mr.Graves and Mr.Martin. The Proletariat class are Hutchinson
family,Old Man Warner and Mr.Adams. The Lottery short story is has shown
clearly an example of society divided into two class. The bourgeoisie class could
dominate and manipulated social classes in society, the proletariat class are
followed the order and the tradition that already existed .