The Lottery and Other Stories

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3-)What normal law of probability has been suspended in this story? Granting this initial implausibility,does the story proceed naturally?

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In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the law of probability that has apparently been suspended is the one that should apply to Old Man Warner. He boasts that he has been in the lottery 77 times and still lives to attend each one. I think this fits in well with the overall ironic nature of the story.

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