Question

THE LOTTERY by SHIRLEY JACKSON

Why does Mrs. Hutchinson say, "It isn't fair. It isn't right." at the end of the story?
Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar.
"Come on," she said. "Hurry up."
Mrs. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath, "I can't run at all. You'll have to go ahead and I'll catch up with you."
The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.
Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said.
A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him.
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

which one is right

• no one waited for her

• Old Man Warner won the tractor

• she was disqualified from winning the big prize

• she was chosen and was stoned

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The correct answer is "she was chosen and was stoned." Mrs. Hutchinson is protesting because she has been selected as the "winner" of the lottery, and the prize is being stoned to death by the other villagers. She realizes the horrific injustice of the ritual and protests against it, declaring "It isn't fair. It isn't right."