Miss Strangeworth Character Analysis
Roses are beautiful and full of perfume, but the 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 built the first house on Pleasant Street” (Jackson, 1941, p. 163). She liked to sleep in the afternoon, knowing no doorbell or phone would ring, because “no one in the town would dare to disturb …show more content…
Her house was so clean that “even the stones of the front walk were swept and clear” that” there is a legend about tourist once mistaking it for the local museum” (Jackson, 1941, p. 168). Her perfectionism not only displayed in her house but also her appearance. When she went out, she would always “[take] up her hat---Miss Strangeworth’s hat were proverbial in the town” (Jackson, 1941, p. 172).Such a perfectionist cheated almost everyone in the town.
It is complex of her to appear to be kind but rebarbative actually. At first, she seemed like very polite and considerate. “She had to stop every minute or so to say good morning to someone” as well as “ask after someone’s health”. (Jackson, 1941, p. 165).Actually, she always wrote letters in sneaky words to stop the evil from her town and “never signed up her name” (Jackson, 1941, p. 163).She thought it could stop the evil but it disturbed other people’s lives.
Miss Strangeworth is the perfectionist but sneaky person that is very different between appearance and reality. It looks like the roses that are not as perfect as we think. Likewise, someone’s appearance may cheat you thus only what he or she did can help you know he or
Miss Strangeworth shows condescension throughout the whole story. She always thought “the town belonged to her” because “[her] grandfather built the first house on Pleasant Street” (Jackson, 1941, p. 163). She liked to sleep in the afternoon, knowing no doorbell or phone would ring, because “no one in the town would dare to disturb …show more content…
Her house was so clean that “even the stones of the front walk were swept and clear” that” there is a legend about tourist once mistaking it for the local museum” (Jackson, 1941, p. 168). Her perfectionism not only displayed in her house but also her appearance. When she went out, she would always “[take] up her hat---Miss Strangeworth’s hat were proverbial in the town” (Jackson, 1941, p. 172).Such a perfectionist cheated almost everyone in the town.
It is complex of her to appear to be kind but rebarbative actually. At first, she seemed like very polite and considerate. “She had to stop every minute or so to say good morning to someone” as well as “ask after someone’s health”. (Jackson, 1941, p. 165).Actually, she always wrote letters in sneaky words to stop the evil from her town and “never signed up her name” (Jackson, 1941, p. 163).She thought it could stop the evil but it disturbed other people’s lives.
Miss Strangeworth is the perfectionist but sneaky person that is very different between appearance and reality. It looks like the roses that are not as perfect as we think. Likewise, someone’s appearance may cheat you thus only what he or she did can help you know he or