In the story, "The Lottery Ticket" the main character is Ivan Dmitritch. He’s a middle-class man and is used to living with little money, twelve hundred dollars a year. Ivan does not have faith in "lottery luck", and usually would never check out the numbers drawn for the winning ticket. He believe the odds of losing are higher then the odds of winning. Ivan loves his wife and just wants her to be happy, so he checks the numbers for her ticket. He finds out that the series number to the ticket is there but decides to make her wait, tormenting her and keeping her wondering if they actually won. If the lottery ticket was Ivan’s and he won he would like to buy a new property and properly furnish it. He would also like to go travelling and pay off his debts. Putting forty thousand dollars worth in the back to collect interest on it. For once in his life he would have a better life that he dreamed of, being well fed, warm and healthy. His wife agreed on the idea of an estate. Ivan seems to be selfish when it comes to how to spend his wife’s lottery ticket, and thinking she should not go along travelling with him. He puts himself before other people and seems to not care about his wife’s feelings and ideas such as when he says, "she knows nothing about money, and so she is stingy. If she won it she would give me a hundred roubles, and put the rest away under lock and key" states Ivan about his wife. The lottery ticket has came between Ivan and his wife, making them have hate feeling towards each other, even though they didn’t end up winning. They got their hopes and dreams up and will never be able to pursue them. Ivan references to killing himself at the end of the story, I think he wants to commit suicide because he got his hopes up over something he usually wouldn’t, and learning that his and his wife’s dreams are different.
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