Analysis Of The Possibility Of Evil By Eudora Welty

In Shirley Jackson’s story “The Possibility of Evil” in which Miss Adela Strangeworth writes letters to get rid of the evil in her town, and in Eudora Welty’s story “A Worn Path,” where a grandmother, Phoenix Jackson makes a hero’s journey into town to pick up medicine for her grandson. Both Adela and Phoenix are duty bound they feel like they have to write letters or make the trip into town and nothing is going to stop them. Both Phoenix’s and Adela’s duty is to protect something they love and couldn't live without. Adela’s duty is to “keep her town alert to (the evil),” by writing the letters she feels she can do just that. she feels she has to protect “her people” in “her town” and the only way to do that is with the letters. because