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Mrs. Strangeworth In The Possibility Of Evil By Shirley Jackson
In “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, Mrs. Strangeworth is showing the attempt of secretism. when Mrs. strangeworth is writing her anonymous letters to the people in her town, she address them with no sign that that was her writing these letters. Another thing is that writes with a little stub of pencil, to make it look as if a child had wrote the letters. I can conclude from reading the article and summing up ideas that shows Mrs. Strangeworth shows secretism by not addressing, and trying to act as if a different

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