The pull of approval from society is something that every person is motivated to achieve. Most people conduct themselves in a way that they think will be considered morally acceptable, in the story The Possibility of Evil however, miss Strangeworth thinks that her own opinions and feelings are the only ones important, and that nobody else’s are relevant. She believed that “People everywhere [in her town] were lustful and evil and degraded, and needed to be watched”(Jackson, 5). Her closed- minded way of thinking leads to members of her community being hurt and thus, her roses that she cares so much about are destroyed as revenge for her poorly thought through actions. If miss Strangeworth had kept her opinions and thoughts about others to herself, than she could have been content with her garden and its beautiful roses. The couple in Rookes story is portrayed as open minded and welcoming to everyone. When the man with “eyes… dark and brooding and hollowed out some.”(Rooke, 143) presents himself to the couple, they go against what most people in society would do and welcome the man to tell them about his cloth. The man does not only reward them with a beautiful piece of cloth for their kind actions, but also with their happiness. Without their open-minded perception of the man and his intentions, they would have been left with nothing.…