People often fear change, scared that it will be a turn for the worse. The characters in "The Lottery" are no different. Being born into peer pressure, the towns' people grow up believing that the violence of the lottery is a fun necessity that the town needs in order to survive. They are not capable of seeing the fact that what they are doing is cruel and unnecessary. In the end the winner finds that the lottery is far overdue for change, but by then it is too late.