[jldugger]

> Is it an allegory for something deeper than what it is.

I've always taken it to be a critique of the draft, aka "the lottery."

[z_open]

This is the typical interpretation.

I remember a question in English class asking what I think this could be about given the context that it was right after the war.

[boisterousness]

No draft in 1948.

[jldugger]

And worse, everyone had their memory of it wiped in 1946.