Consequences Choices always come with either good or bad consequences. In the words of Mat Kearney, “sooner or later” connects in a way to these stories because sooner or later your bad or good luck will come your way. I know people who do drugs and smoke, I see them going homeless when they grow up and I see my sister transferring to a University because she is making the right choices now. These choices can relate to literature such as in the short stories The Lottery, What of this goldfish would you wish, by any other name, and A wife’s story. In two of these stories the decisions were good, but in the other two the choices were bad and wrong. One story showed a very bad choice. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, there was a family and the father out of the whole family got chosen to die, Mrs.Hutchinson said that they should take their daughter instead of her husband. This was a bad choice for Mrs.Hutchinson to make. The consequences to her choice was that when Mr.Summers ...