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One way to interpret Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery,' especially since she published it in
1948-three years after the end of World War Il—is as a comment on what philosopher
Hannah Arendt termed “the banality of evil, or the ordinariness and, thus, acceptance of
evil resulting from totalitarianism. With that in mind, in two to three sentences comment
on what you suppose Jackson makes with her story and her use of a matter of fact tone.