her husband understood her look. what did her husband understand?what was the final out come of the lottery?
Answers
After Bill Hutchinson draws the marked slip of paper, Tessie begins protesting that his selection wasn’t fair, and Bill, in response, tells her to be quiet. Bill should be as distraught as Tessie, as he knows he or a member of his family will be killed. However, he seems embarrassed by Tessie’s reaction and more concerned with his family’s compliance than their actual well-being.
“I guess not, Joe,” Bill Hutchinson said regretfully. “My daughter draws with her husband’s family, that’s only fair.”
Explanation:
a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper.
“I forgot to look at the newspaper today,” his wife said to him as she cleared the table. “Look and see whether the list of drawings is there.”