"The Lottery" Shirley Jackson

In this story, we have a third person omniscient narrator. The story is told in the objective point of view where the narrator does not judge, interpret, or attatch any feelings toward events in the story. It is important to have this type of narration for "The Lottery," because the narrator represents the town and they way that they respond to this primitive ritual. They don't question it, but just accept it, because, frankly, that's the way it has always been. I find it odd that not one character seeks morality and tries to stop it, but if one did it would change the whole plot of the story. Back to my point, the narrator's dispassionate, matter-of-fact attitude can be seen throughout the entire story. It particularly stuck out to me when she said, "The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." First of all, it is sick and wrong that a young child, too young to even open up his own paper, is given pebbles to stone his own mother to death. Second of all, this displays the normality of the ritual and how even the children are involved.