Miss. Strangeworth is the worst character from the other six short stories read. Throughout the story The Possibility of Evil Miss. Adela Strangeworth would write mean and anonymous letters in block lettering like a child would, and then mail her opinion to the person. Compared to another person in one of the short stories like The Interlopers were Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. The two men wanted to kill each other just because of an old family feud. When they both had been trapped under tree and they started to talk to each other they became friends, but then a few minutes later were eaten by wolves. Miss. Strangeworth however just writes to people she has spoken to and puts them down. Meanwhile there are also other characters better than her. In To Build a Fire a man that is unnamed takes his dog along in the Yukon and does not dress for the weather and ends up freezing to death while his dog lives. The man is the better character because he does not make fun of the people in the town that told him to dress warmer. The man was mean to his dog but in the end he let it go. “Miss. Strangeworth never concerned herself with facts.” (pg.194) Although the man was not a good example there is also another character from And of Clay Are We Created …show more content…
The reporter granted her wish before she had the heart attack. In the end it was very positive. Unlike Adela “That little girl is going to grow up expecting luxury her whole life.” (pg.191) This was her making fun of the Cranes daughter because she had nice things on. She never complimented how nice her outfit or stroller was just very negative. Azucena never asked to have a tragic mudslide to trap her. Just like the Cranes never asked for Miss. Strangeworth opinion. Of course in Two Friends Monsieur Sauvage, and Monsieur Morrisot are the better character than
In the short story “The Possibility Of Evil “ by Shirley Jackson was several symbols to tell her story about Miss Strangeworth. One symbol she uses is her name Strangeworth. She was a strange women but everyone thought she was normal and nice, but in reality she was mean and strange, she thought she was better than everyone else. Another symbol she uses is the letter Miss.Strangeworth sent to people. They mean more than just letters because they show how she really is, she is showing her true colors. Finally another symbol was her flowers, the flowers meant that she was better than anyone else. The flowers were fancy, Miss. Strangeworth thought she was elegant and polite . Certain symbols have certain meaning in today's culture because they
The two characters introduced during the letters section in the book are Robert Walton and the stranger who came onto his crew. Robert Walton is sending letters to his sister, which indicate he is on a voyage to the North Pole and how ambitious he is to be the first to sail there. During his journey, an unknown man boards his ship. My initial reaction to Walton was that he seemed to be very ambitious, but also a clear example of a romantic character. Additionally, he searches for someone who is in able to share his ambitions and romantic characteristics. My reaction to the stranger who boards the ship was that he seemed helpless at first until he was in a less fragile
At the end Miss Strangeworth writes anonymous letters to people. The letters express her assuming things about other people and giving her opinion. An example of her being cruel is, She writes a letter to Mrs. Harper and her baby and says, “Didn’t you ever see an idiot child before? Some people just shouldn’t have children should they?” She writes this because she bases her letters on assuming things instead of going to the person and getting the facts. Another example of Miss Strangeworth being cruel is, She writes another letter to Mrs. Harper and says, “Have you found out yet what they were all laughing about after you left the bridge club on Thursday? Or is the wife really the last one to know?” Miss Strangeworth writes this because she doesn’t seem to care how anyone else feels except for her. This proves that my topic sentence is true by giving details at the end of the story, it finally shows her true colors and shows how really mean she can be.
This story revolves around a character known as Miss Adela Strangeworth whose ancestral home is Pleasant Street which also happens to be the setup used to develop the story. However she is from the initial stages of the story portrayed as an old lady that is relatively calm and harmless especially with regards to the lives of her neigbours. She is portrayed in the story with the author as a proud lady who believes in the fact that she owns her town perhaps a factor that is evidenced by the way she interacts with the members of her community. Her constant conversations with the members of the community perhaps paint her as a relatively calm, loving and caring lady to the members of the community.
For a seemingly sweet elderly lady, the readers would not have imagined her to be a bully or even a slight bit of rude for that matter. However, little did anyone know that Miss Strangeworth was hiding an unbearable secret. The cruel letters she writes to people in her town, the way she goes about them, and her love for writing them proves that she is very much a bully. Miss Strangeworth is one of the reasons why people should watch out for who they
The beginning of the story displays the theme by showing that Miss.Strangeworth seems innocent in her public life, but later shows that she lies about what she thinks to people. When she told Mrs. Crane “All babies are different. Some of them develop much more quickly than others", in response to her worrying about her child, she
In, “The Problem of Evil,” Eleonore Stump holds the belief that the existence of evil in our world does not automatically disprove God’s existence. The belief that God cannot live alongside evil is considered to be the Evidential Problem of evil and this is what Stump is arguing against in her paper. Stump argues, the ability to fix our defective free will makes Union with God possible, which overwrites all the un-absorbable evils in the world, showing both God and un-absorbable evils can coexist. In this paper I hope to show that God can exist, but also show that human free will is limited.
Usually, the little old lady who lives down the street is always a sweet old woman who bakes cookies and knits all day, but in the case of Miss Adela Strangeworth she had developed a very evil hobby. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Possibility Of Evil” Miss Strangeworth may seem like a nice old lady but she is really a proud, cruel, and secretive woman, who enjoys making everyone in the town she lived in feel terrible without even knowing she was doing it.
In the story “ The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson Miss Strangeworth is not evil. The Elderly lady just wants to keep her family’s town in place , and make sure that it doesn’t turn bad. Miss Strangeworth also wants to keep her family inherited roses in her town. in fact,the author explains that her family had “built this town”(Jackson 188). Miss Strangeworth feels like the town belongs to her grandfather since he built the first house on pleasant street. Miss Strangeworth has watched her city grow up. She can explain almost anything that happened in the town, so she must have grown really close with her roots. You can see why she may get upset and mad from somebody messing around. Another important part of the story is when the author
In stories, character complexly is a esential. The Shirley Jackson story “The Possibility of Evil” tells the story of a seventy-one year women named Miss Strangeworth. She’s an unusual character that stems off from status quo. Though it doesn’t mean she completely unique. Regardless, her desires, contrasting traits, consistency, and the ability to change make Mrs.Strangeworth a complex character.
Miss Strangeworth's family have been in the town for many generations. A very specific aspect in her life dedicated to her mother's and grandmother's
In “The Possibility of Evil,” Miss Strangeworth, the main character, is an insane person because of her ego and how highly she thinks of herself, her malicious intents that were dont with no remorse to the townspeople, and her unfathomable denial of her wrongdoing. Miss Strangeworth considers her duty to the town is to nitpick and judge everyone in it simply because she values herself so highly as the only Strangeworth of Pleasant Street. While looking around in "her" town, she notices the absent-minded librarian, Miss Chandler. Miss Strangeworth takes in her appearance and deduces that "she had not taken much trouble with her hair that morning" (Jackson 208). Being her egocentric self, Miss Strangeworth sighs at the lack of effort that Miss Chandler had when around her. No matter how small a
“The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson is written during a time period of a conflicted, stressed world. Miss Strangeworth represents the Victorians, while the rest of the world represents the Modernists. As the world changes into an “evil” place, Miss Strangeworth is trying to keep the world how it used to be before she was born and when she was a child.
“She knew everyone in town, of course; she was fond of telling strangers -- tourists who sometimes passed through the town and stopped to admire Miss Strangeworth’s roses -- that she had never spent more than a day outside this town in all her long life.” Miss Strangeworth, the main character in “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, is the main source of conflict in this story. “The Possibility of Evil” shows how much of a difference one person can make. “The Possibility of Evil” should be read every year in this 9th grade class.
The intention of the letters Miss Strangeworth sends is for them to fix their flawed lives. The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson teaches that what comes around goes around because Miss Strangeworth wrote mean letters to her neighbors which caused them to vandalize her garden and she also intentionally teases other people in her town. Miss Strangeworth needs to learn to treat others the way she wants to be treated. As well as to know what comes around goes around.