The Lottery vs The Possibility of Evil

The Lottery and the Possibility of Evil are both similar in their themes. In the Possibility of Evil you have this woman who is trying to protect her legacy and keep her town pure. While in The Lottery you have this tradition that people have been following for generations and now no one really knows why it's necessary anymore. People in the village are blindly following what they consider tradition even though they don't know why. In the Possibility of Evil Miss Strangeworth does everything she can to protect, "the tradition" so to speak, of the town that her family built, keeping alive the tradition of innocence that is in her town, or so she thinks. Both stories have a central theme that there is evil in all of us whether or not we realize it or not.