Who Is The Authority Figure In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery?

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The Lottery is a text about a small village who which each year has an event each year called “the lottery”. Every maen from every household who’is responsible of for the family has to go draw drawing a piece of paper from a black box. Once everyone has a piece of paper, they look at it and the maen who has a paper with a black dot on it has to go with his family on the stage where each member has to pick another piece of paper. The person who picks the piece of paper with the black dot is hit with stones until she dies.
This story was written by a woman at a time where female had very little power. In the text, you can see that women were not taken seriously and that men were seen as the authority figure. Only a men can draw from the black

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