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Miss Strangeworth In The Possibility Of Evil By Shirley Jackson
The short story, “The Possibility of Evil”, written by Shirley Jackson, the short story is about a sweet old lady, Miss Strangeworth, that cares a lot about the the people in the town and feels the need to “fix” their problems. Miss Strangeworth feels that there is so much evil in the world and she needs to get rid of the evil. Miss Strangeworth is socializing with the people who she thinks has problems in their lives, so no one will suspect that she is the one writing the anonymous letters to them. After socializing with them, Miss Strangeworth heads back to her house and starts writing the letters to them. Then, Miss Strangeworth goes to the post office to drop her letters there, and Harris boy sees her and picks up the letter. Harris boy looks at the letter which is addressed to the Crane family …show more content…
In the quote stated in the short story, ”Wearily Miss Strangeworth turned to go home to her quiet bed in her lovely house, and never heard the Harris boy calling to her to say that she had dropped something.” The quote means,” Miss Strangeworth turned back to go home to her quiet bed, and she didn’t hear the Harris boy shouting at her to tell her that she dropped something.” Harris boy supports the message because there is a possibility of evil when he makes the decision to keep the letter written by Miss Strangeworth, which was addressed to the Crane family about their newborn baby. The quote stated , “She found the mail on the hall floor and bent to pick it up.” The quote means, “ Miss Strangeworth found the mail on the floor that Harris boy wrote to her, and she picked it up.” Miss Strangeworth looks at the letter and opens it. She sheds a tear, inside the letter was written, ”LOOK OUT AT WHAT USED TO BE YOUR

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