In "The Lottery" there are two types of conflict that the reader learns about, internal and external. While we do not learn of either conflict until the end of the story, the author begins setting up the conflict from the very beginning. In the beginning of "The Lottery" we are told of a town whose inhabitants lead very average lives that we can relate too. The narrator talks about the kids playing in the square, and the towns' people that have gathered and are chit-chatting and making jokes with one another. It is not until the lottery takes place that we learn of the potential for violence that the towns' people have grown into. Externally, we find that once Tessie is declared the winner of the lottery she turns on the very people that she loves and wants to redo the lottery so that another person can be declared the winner. Internally, she finds that the lottery is not what everyone has made it out to be, peer pressure is what was controlling her entire life.