Read carefully the paragraph that begins, “There was a great deal of fussing…” (2) and explain how the author uses specific words and details to reinforce the importance of the lottery in this small town. "The lottery"

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?