Comparison Of Evil And A Pair Of Silk Stockings By Shirley Jackson

If one were to break down each day of his life into a series of steps, he could label said steps as choices; some the kind he makes for himself, some out of his control, some made by other people that affect him, and some he makes that affect his peers. Some choices that he makes may seem elementary to some, and to others, may appear as burdensome and impossible. Depending on how one views himself and where one's priorities lie, a choice is something that can be viewed by all different types of people as right, wrong, or so trivial that it shouldn’t even be considered a choice, but merely a habitual action. In the short stories, “The Possibility of Evil,” written by Shirley Jackson, “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Kate Chopin and “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver, each of the story’s central characters faces difficult choices that force each character to become oblivious to the fixed fine line between right and wrong, or better yet, move the line to where they make the choice they believe is the right one. In the literary work,” The Possibility of Evil,” written by Shirley Jackson, protagonist Miss Strangeworth undoubtedly makes the wrong choice when she chooses to start every day sending

This left “the baby” at the end of the story appearing more of an object rather than a person. To add to this point, the unnamed parents are virtually showing no emotion at the end of this story. “In this manner, the issue was decided” (Carver 2). The author continues showing a lack of emotion present within these characters. “The issue was decided,” made the story tremendously suspenseful and forced the fate of the baby to leave their unstable hands, as whatever was to happen next, presumably death, fell on both of their guilty