Essay- Ms. Strangeworth Ms Adela Strangeworth is the protagonist and is as well as the antagonist from “The Possibility of Evil‚” a short story written by Shirley Jackson. She is the kind of person that is secretly all within us. She has all the motives to be good intention but hurts others without meaning to‚ which is very common now a days. Ms. Strangeworth is a dainty 70 year old women who is often seen wearing a nice neat skirt so who would ever suspect her as “evil?” Strangeworth is a judgmental
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Characters can be described by looking at their different character traits. Miss Adela Strangeworth in “The Possibility of Evil” can be described by examining her characteristics of personality and physical appearance‚ her lifestyle and activities‚ her hobbies and interests‚ and her goals and responsibilities. One way Miss Adela can be characterized‚ is through her personality and physical appearance. Miss Adela is a dainty 70 year old woman‚ often seen wearing a neat skirt and one of her many proverbial
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Analyzing Miss Strangeworth Trying to get to know people is like reading a book; you have to figure out every detail. Shirley Jackson’s story‚ “The Possibility of Evil”‚ is a way for the readers to learn more about Miss Strangeworth. She is a woman who loves her town‚ but can be a bit discouraging to the people in her town. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does and says‚ what the narrator says about her‚ and how other characters interact with her. Miss Strangeworth’s
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Can a person be considered evil even though they are trying to help everyone and messes up their lives while they are at it? The answer is yes. Although Miss Strangeworth is trying to help a small town that her grandfather helped create‚ she is also making the live of people around her miserable. Miss Strangeworth appears to be a loving sweet old lady but in reality she is simply a deceptive perfectionist with the the thought that it is her God given duty to tell everyone about the “evil” in their
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Miss Adela Strangeworth Shirley Jackson tells us about a very interesting character in the short story titled “The Possibility of Evil.” In the story Miss Strangeworth is an old lady who takes it as her duty too inform the town of evil‚ but one day one of her evil informing letters gets in the wrong hands and her favorite roses are cut. In this essay the character of Miss Strangeworth is described through her physical description‚ family‚ lifestyle and her hobbies. One way the readers get to
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term paper examples. The short story “ A Possibility of Evil” takes place in a small‚ silent‚ peaceful town. In this quiet town lives a woman in her seventies named ms. Strangeworth. She is well known thru put her community for her dazzling rose garden‚ many people in the town seem to respect her. On the exterior ms. Strangeworth seems kind but in actuality she is an extremely judgmental and a nosy woman who thinks she owns the town. Mrs. Strange worth writes anonymous letters to the towns’ people
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thorn may hurt you. Similarly‚ it is the same in life. There are many people who don’t look like what they seem. Miss Adela Strangeworth‚ a character in a story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson‚ is a seventy-one-year old woman who wants to stop the evil from her town. However‚ her efforts made her become a condescending perfectionist with a god complex. Miss Strangeworth shows condescension throughout the whole story. She always thought “the town belonged to her” because “[her] grandfather
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Miss Strangeworth used to greet everyone she sees in her town. She goes to the store and speaks with a guy named Mr. Lewis and disagrees of parenting. The Setting is at a Street named Pleasant‚ North America in the 1990s.The Theme in this story: the effects of a two-faced person. One person can effect an entire community. You may think you are doing a good deed to someone ‚ when it could be a harm in their eyes. Miss Starangeworth thinks that she is the owner of the town since her family had lived
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is about an old lady named Miss Strangeworth‚ that shows how evil and mean she is. Miss strangeworth thinks she owns the town. People think that she is the perfect person that is friendly‚ charming and nice but the town doesn’t realize until the end that Miss Strangeworth has been living a different life behind peoples backs. Miss Strangeworth lives alone in her family house on Pleasant Street‚ and she acts as the perfect person in the community. Miss Strangeworth seems to be a friendly grandmotherly
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Possibility of Evil”‚ Shirley Jackson writes about Ms. Strangeworth‚ an elderly lady‚ that looks to be kind and sweet but turns out to be a judgmental perfectionist. In the story‚ Ms. Strangeworth writes letters to people in her town judging them about how they live their lives. Clearly‚ Ms. Strangeworth proves that appearance can be deceiving because below the kind demeanor she is selfish‚ nasty‚ and bitter person. To begin‚ Ms. Strangeworth can be perceived as a perfectionist that hates when people
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