What do you understand to be the writers own attitude toward the lottery and the stoning? Exactly what in the story makes her attitude clear to us?

In Shirley Jackson's short story "The
Lottery," the writer mainly uses very neutral descriptive language that does not make it
clear how she feels about the proceedings. This has the effect of making the reader work out how
he or she feels, a process which takes most of the length of the story, since it is not really
clear what is going on until the chilling sentence:

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they
still remembered to use stones.

The public stoning is one
of the oldest and most barbaric methods of punishment and the final word of the sentence weighs
it down with the gravity of a stone.

After this sentence, there are a few
indications of the writer's own feelings, though they are initially focused through Tessie
Hutchinson and show her pitiable terror. She holds her hands out "desperately" and
screams. The final phrase "and then they were upon her" suggests a pack of ravenous
wild beasts rather than a human community.

Theof Old Man Warner may be
another subtle way in which the writer shows her own feelings. He is portrayed as a petulant
windbag, so the fact that he is the greatest proponent and defender of the lottery can scarcely
be to its credit.