My reading of The Lottery is a female dominant reading. I symapthise with Grace for being married to Ted and I absolutely loathed Ted from the beginning. Ted comes across as an arrogant person who thinks that he was a good husband and father and a good citizen ‘he was a good fellow… a good citizen too, a good husband and father.’ But all I see is a man who is full of himself and you also discover as the story goes on that he is the opposite of a good father and husband. Another reason for my hatred towards Ted was his lack of trust in Grace. I personally think he was embarrassed by the fact that he wasn’t the one to come up with the money and that it was his wife so he kept questioning where she had got the money from to buy the lottery ticket ‘his mind darted here and there suspiciously. There was something secretive about Grace’. Ted also always seemed to feel the need to be in control. He himself says that he ‘felt his assurance threatened’ when he first discovered that his wife had one the lottery and ‘he prided himself he noticed everything’. This made me think that he was very controlling in his relationship with Grace, which could’ve been one of the factors that drove her away. I also don’t like the way he doesn’t appreciate Grace and the work she does for him ‘she always seemed to be working but he couldn’t see what there was to do that could take her so long’ and he sees that Grace is miserable but just comments on it and doesn’t show any concern for her ‘she wasn’t cheery… Something moody about her now. Woody.’ I also feel sorry for Grace as she is married to Ted a man that doesn’t appreciate her and couldn’t care enough to notice how miserable she is. He doesn’t respect her or trust her and trust is an important basis to any marriage. I can see that her marriage is failing and that Ted isn’t the best of husbands making her desperately want to get out of that house even if it meant leaving her children behind.