the lottery

what do you think shirley Jackson is driving at? consider each of the following interpretations and, looking at the story, see if you can find any evidence of it:

Jackson takes a primitive fertility rite and playfully transfers it to a small town in North America.

Jackson, writing her story soon after World war II, indirectly expresses her horror at the Holocaust. She assumes that the massacre of the jews was carried out by unwitting, obedient people, like these villagers.

Jackson is satirizing our own society, in which men are selected for the army by lottery.

Jackson is just writing a memorable story that signifies nothing at all.