The Lottery and Other Stories

Questions: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

5.a) What is the first point in the story at which you sense something is not quite right? What specifically generates that feeling?

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The lottery itself sounds like a maundane thing that must get done so that "the villagers to get home for noon dinner." This sounded off to me. Generally a lottery is not an ordinary event which people endure and shuffle home afterwards.

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