The Possibility Of Evil Literary Analysis

Has a seamlessly ordinary story invaded libraries and overrun bookstores, with those who have not read the latest literature fad confused about its appeal? These simple tales’ authors use elements of human nature, which are qualities and aspects all humans, regardless of circumstances experience, in their works as a social commentary on everyday topics. The characters that the authors manufacture are a way to connect to with patrons on a global scale. Authors reveal elements about human nature through characters’ belongings and their relationships with others, where readers use characters' fleshed out back story to understand their motivation throughout the story, reflecting modern standards of perspective and oppression.
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Foremost, in the short story “The Possibility of Evil”, Miss Adela Strangeworth writes suspicious letters to several peers such as Don Crane about the possible evil lurking in her town, believing that “if one of [her people were] in trouble she ought to know about it” (Jackson 7), to which Don Crane replies, “LOOK OUT AT WHAT USED TO BE YOUR ROSES” (Jackson 8). As such, Miss Strangeworth and the people in her town have a totalitarian relationship, where her superiority lets her spiteful to other people, where a rebellious subject under her acts upon his instinct to overthrow her authority. Accordingly, when a character is out of line conforming to the author’s opinion about how humans should act around others, the character receives a form of punishment administered by the author. Furthermore, in the short story “Ambush”, a boy named Roger shoots an unsuspecting Joey Bacon with a water gun, and as a result, reacts violently by throwing a rock at his head; seven years later, an officer informs Joey’s mother that he had “died in an ambush near Khe Sanh” (Woodward 1). Whether this short story was biographical, as the protagonist and the author coincidentally have the same first name, the author incorporates this early rivalry between the two characters as a way to distance themselves, creating a conflict where Roger ultimately is not interested in Joey’s demise, believing it as poetic justice and revenge upon him as a result of his injuries. In the same way, within the realm of fiction, authors chasten characters who have done wrong doings against other characters like a physical wound, intentionally reflecting modern societal standards of how humans must treat each other on an equal basis, or else the author, representing an existential force, levels the ranks between them, delivering