Why was she stoned for the winning of the lottery in the story?

Answer 1

Human sacrifice, which has other names, is essentially the thems of the story. the author, Shirley Jackson, claimed and she only discussed this one, she wrote the story to suggest the possibilities of how Human sacrifice might be practiced today if society still used it. The idea of being executed for (Winning) a Lottery is surely paradoxical to th popular idea of say, Hitting the Jackpot. It should be noted one of the more (mature) detective shows had an unusual procedure for it"s three man crew when faced with a dangerous assignment. somebody would place slips of paper in a bowl with a cover on it ( as I gathered, to forestall cheating) and while very sonorous but unidentifiable ( not patriotic songs, for example) music was played, the three members of the team , Jack, Doc, and Reggie, would draw slips from the bowl. the man who drew the short straw- well he got the risky job. This was evidentally done to avoid the more practical angle of a (Command decision) by the man in charge. As far as I know this was only done on the radio drama serial- I Love a Mystery. It may have been used in (The Three Musketeers) which I never read. an unusual application for gambling, methinks.