The Lottery
Shirley Jackson chose 3rd person objective for the story The Lottery. One example is, On the very last page in the short story it states “Mrs. Hutchinson screamed and they all were upon her.” This sentence doesn’t use I or you, but it also doesn’t know everything that a character is thinking or one, so it has to be 3rd person objective. Another example is, on page 6 the author states “Mr. Graves selected the five slips and put them in the box.” This sentence is saying what Mr. Graves is doing and not what other people are thinking. Another example is, on page 4 it says “By now, all through the crowd there were men holding the small folded papers in their large hands.” This means that the narrator only knew what people were doing
