The feeling of the villagers at the moment when Dave Hutchinson was spared from the lottery is that of
In the story, 'The Lottery', we learn of how a village gathered its members to draw from a lottery box. The purpose of the lottery was to sacrifice one of the villagers to the gods for a better planting season.
This purpose was not particularly evident at the outset of the story because of the normal atmosphere among the villagers.
When the lottery fell on the Hutchinson's, the villagers uttered a sigh when the lot did not fall on Dave who was a little child in the Hutchinson's family.
This sigh can be interpreted to mean a sigh of relief because the young boy will not die.
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