PLEASE HELP ASAP, I WOULD GIVE 50 PTS. Why do you think Shirley Jackson’s short story "The Lottery" was unpopular with so many readers when it was first published in the New Yorker in 1948? Your answer should contain at least one hundred words.

Neighbors peered at us as we walked by their eyes weighed us their eyes judged us and at the peered we straightened our backs and lifted our chins in contempt we didn’t care what they thought what rhetorical technique dose the passage best exemplify a: understatement b: parallelism c: hyperbole d: satire