Character’s affect When does a character can affect the reader? Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery” which is the story that has such and different characters. Shirley Jackson’s has major and minor characters used them in the story. However, she gives a Reader a space to own decide which character that may be accepted. Readers have their own opinions or aspects that lead them to describe any character such as character’s type, an emotional aspect, the effectively of the character inside the story, and phycology aspect. First of all, round and flat characters are the two main types of characters that affect reader in a specific story. Round character is the major character in a fiction story. A round character is like a real character in the life that attracts people around him. There are many writers that build these kinds of characters inside the story to excite, and to make reader think more about them. Shirley Jackson uses type of round characters in her fiction’s story for instance Mrs. Hutchinson. Jackson uses Mrs. Hutchinson in the story and describes her different behaviors in the story. As she wrote in the story, “Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly along the path to the square, her sweeter thrown over her shoulders, and slid in to place in the back of the crowd.” (187), also, when she mentioned, “Mrs. Hutchinson craned her neck to see through the crowd.” (187) In fact, Mrs. Hutchinson was as a woman who everyone can find her in district. On the other side, the flat character is a minor character in fiction stories and this kind of character supports a major character in the story. The Old Man Warner is considered a minor character and he played as supporter for Mr. Summers. Shirley Jackson shows that when she stated that in the story, “black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in the town, was born. Mr.