Concerning your question about Jackson's "The Lottery," I think you're asking why the point of view in this short story is like the point of view one might usually experience when viewing drama (a play). When reading or viewing a play, of course, one only sees and hears actions and dialogue, rather than being let in on character thoughts or receiving explanations from the writer. This is true, for the most part, anyway (choruses and soliloquies are the exceptions). And your observations about "The Lottery" are accurate. The point of view is similar to a drama's.
The narrator in "The Lottery" is objective and matter-of-fact, detached. He/she reports only what is seen and heard, like a dramatist would. The narration must be objective in order to create the surprise ending and, therefore, the horror that comes with it.
The narrator presents the town and the people as ordinary, normal. These are people like any other, and the town is like any other. There is nothing extraordinary about either. That makes the ending a surprise, and shocking.
And the normality present in the story is the point. Normal, everyday people are capable of great cruelty when it is possible to be cruel and not be punished for it. Normal, everyday people are capable of abnormal acts when tradition or the community dictate or support the acts. Nazis were not the only ones to persecute Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals in WWII, for instance. Entire towns in Poland, the Ukraine, etc., persecuted minorities once the door was opened to do so, figuratively speaking, by the Nazis in WWII.
Reporting only actions and dialogue is how the narrator portrays normal people capable of horrible things.
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