Question

I having trouble with a question the teacher gave me. "In what tone does the narrator tell the story? How is this tone established?"

"The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov

Answer 1

<i>Tone, in written composition, is an <b>attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience</b>. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. ... The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful or it may be any other existing attitudes.</i>

http://literarydevices.net/tone/