First person narrators are judgmental. They don't necessarily try to be but they are. Look at Nick in The Great Gatsby, or you're in 9th grade, maybe you've read The Scarlet Ibis. The narrator is the brother of the main character and he inserts those sibling disappointments and frustrations that we all experience. This makes the story real and easy to relate to.
With a first person perspective, you feel their situation from the onset of the story. This plot in The Lottery is designed specifically for you to receive a shock at the end. My students' jaws drop as we get to the end of this piece... a lottery suggests a winner for the positive, usually of money! If we received a first person point of view, we would feel their tense nerves as they told the tale. They would likely give it away. It would be an entirely different mood.
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