In the story “The Lottery,” Jackson writes that “She [Tessie Hutchinson] tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd.” How does the author's use of the phrase “as a farewell” foreshadow what is to come in the story?

It suggests the women won’t see each other again.

It indicates that the women will not be friendly in the future.

It hints that the crowd will become too loud for the women to speak later.

It implies that the women will become allies.

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Explanation: It was a classic episode on the old Candid Camera show — people getting on an elevator and turning backward just because everyone else did, and we all laughed. We laughed again during the movie Mean Girls, when an act of teenage revenge — cutting nasty Queen Bee Regina’s T-shirt during gym class (an act meant to insult her) — became a school fashion trend instead.

It turns out the joke is on us. These two examples illustrate something that we humans don’t like to admit about ourselves: We follow the pack. Like birds in a flock or sheep in a pasture, we follow — sometimes at our own peril.