Name: GEORGE P. PERICANO JR.

Grade & Section: 12 - SOLIDARITY

Date: October 23, 2022

I. Title and Author

 “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov
 Anton Chekhov is a Russian dramatis and author who lived Badenweiler, Germany 1860-
1904, He is among the major short-story writers and dramatists in history. He wrote
seventeen plays and almost six hundred stories. He was born in Taganrog in South Russia
on the Azov Sea, in 1876 his father’s business failed and the family moved to Moscow,
Russia, for a fresh start. He was left behind to finish his schooling, in 1879 he joined in his
parents in Moscow. He immediately entered the medical school of Moscow University. In
attempt to add to his income in Moscow, Chekhov wrote for the humor magazines he
himself liked to read. His first story was published in March 1880 by a magazine called the
Dragonfly, which went on to publish nine more of his stories, most of them signed "Antosha
Chekhonte," that year.
 https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Chekhov-Anton.html
II. Summary
 Chekhov's "The Lottery Ticket" is about a middle-class man named Ivan, who reads the
paper and tells his wife that the first few numbers of the winning lottery number are the
same as her lottery ticket. Excited, they each fantasize about how they would spend the
money, but their thoughts soon shift and become resentful, as each imagines how the
winnings will negatively change their spouse. Their plans are interrupted when they notice
that the winning lottery number is one different than Ivan's wife's ticket. Realizing they have
not won anything, they resume their lives.
III. Critic Analysis
 The couple in this story were relatively happy with one another. But then they thought they
had won the lottery. Once they thought this, the husband especially began to have big
dreams. He became dissatisfied with what a moment before had been an acceptable life.
Another way you could look at it is to say is that you should not let a change in your wealth
(or other circumstances) change who you are as a person.
 Ultimately, this story deals with greed and how the desire for material possessions is
ultimately what poisons us. From Chekhov's point of view, wealth is the seed of
dissatisfaction, and it eventually leads to accepting gratitude for what we already possess.
IV. Synthesis
 Anton Chekhov is a major short-story writer and one of his themes in creating them contains
the humor of everyday life. His short stories brings many lessons in life especially the one I
am reading “The Lottery Ticket” short story. In the story “The Lottery Ticket” it depicts how
greed and the desire of materials possessions is what ultimately poisons us. The theme also
relates to disappointment and failed ideas. I think that the short story gave the readers a
valuable lesson on money and greed of people.