The Lottery and Other Stories

The lottery question 8

Do you find the narrator's tone strange, or even shocking? Why? What theme about cruelty or injustice does this tone help communicate?

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There is a dark cynical tone to it. Notice how people seem immune to Tessie's cry for fairness or for life. Even her family joins in on the stoning seemingly untouched by emotion.

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