Which of the following passages from the morning of june 28 1948 and the lottery best shows how shirley jackson's specific word choices contribute to the story's tone?

a. I went on picking up the mail every morning, pushing my daughter up and down the hill in her stroller, anticipating pleasurably the check from The New Yorker, and shopping for groceries.

b. The weather stayed nice and it looked as though it was going to be a good summer.

c. No, I said, nothing in particular; it was just a story I wrote.

d. Then, on June 28, The New Yorker came out with my story.

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Addyson Estes

28 March, 19:27

Which of the following passages from the morning of june 28 1948 and the lottery best shows how shirley jackson's specific word choices contribute to the story's tone?

a. I went on picking up the mail every morning, pushing my daughter up and down the hill in her stroller, anticipating pleasurably the check from The New Yorker, and shopping for groceries.

b. The weather stayed nice and it looked as though it was going to be a good summer.

c. No, I said, nothing in particular; it was just a story I wrote.

d. Then, on June 28, The New Yorker came out with my story.

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Nathaniel Warner · Answer 1

A is the best answer. The other answers are too brief to really tell anything. A provides more of a tone because you learn what kind of morning it was.