Miss Strangeworth’s garden is referenced to many times throughout the story. The roses are a great symbolism to Miss Strangeworth herself. Just like a rose’s soft‚ pretty petals‚ Miss Strangeworth appears to be a nice‚ elderly woman. Just like a rose secretly has sharp thorns‚ Miss Strangeworth has her pointed side as well. The roses are also a parallel to Miss Strangeworth in the end. Those being destroyed just like her reputation in the town is. The foreshadowing starts in the very beginning
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In “The Possibility of Evil” The main character Mrs. Strangeworth shows one personality and keeps the other private. The one she shows gets others people impression as a kind and respected old lady. Mrs. Strangeworth’s private personality was very rude and disrespectful. The author uses characterization to show two sides of Mrs. Strangeworth’s personality. Mrs. Strangeworth’s public personality was like her beautiful rose house. Everyone in town everyone around the neighborhood would greet her wherever
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reader expects Miss Strangeworths’ letters to go through the mail and be delivered to her victims. The young Harris boy finds one of the letters on the ground and says‚ “She dropped a letter addressed to Don Crane. Might as well take it to him” (Jackson‚ 228). Miss Strangeworth accidentally drops one of her letters. Mr. Crane receives the letter and is told by the Harris boy that it is from Miss Strangeworth. Due to the context of the letter‚ the reader expects Miss Strangeworth to be confronted
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of Southern Gothicism. Miss. Strangeworth has brought on her own evil to herself but is unknowing of it.. She has the view of a person who is looking from a “royal” standpoint and sees she can do no wrong. That is a trait from Southern Gothicism confusing good and evil. Miss. Strangeworth is spreading gloom onto people which is also related to Southern Gothicism. To go on with these Southern Gothic elements‚ the non-participating narrator describes Adela Strangeworth and her perception of others
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The Resistance to Change Against better judgment‚ moral correctness‚ or just plain logic‚ it is in human nature to resist change. Throughout history it has been shown that there will always be a great deal of resistance to change‚ even if that change may be positive. Sometimes to resist is not voluntarily chosen‚ and varying levels of resistance can depend on the subject. There are times in everybody’s lives where they resist due to personal reasoning; the way they were raised‚ culture‚ and tradition
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The way that Miss Strangeworth acts so kindly and polite to everyone in the town is situational irony. This is an example because this situation turns out much different than one may think… Her letters caused so much suffering to everyone in the little town that once one of her letters were discovered‚ that person wanted to create suffering for her. "Everything literally looked like it had not been touched. Her roses were flawless. However‚ the town was proud of Miss Strangeworth and her perfectionist
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Possibility of Evil". Jackson uses irony to convey to the reader Miss Strangeworth’s true nature. "Nonsense. All babies are different. Some of them develop much more quickly than others" (line 97). This is an example of verbal irony because Miss Strangeworth doesn’t mean it at all‚ and this is proven in lines 66-68 when she says "DIDN’T YOU EVER SEE AN IDIOTCHILD BEFORE? SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN’T HAVE CHILDREN‚ SHOULD THEY?" "The Possibility of Evil"‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is a twisted story. It starts
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Another example of foreshadowing is in the very first few lines of Shirleys “the possibility of evil”‚ where a symbolism of ‘decieving looks’ is introduced. “Miss Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses…” (the possibility of evil 1). Roses are a symbolism of deceit; and thats why they are used to represent the main character Miss Strangeworth.
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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
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day to day actions are quite simple Miss Strangeworth does take part in an atypical evening task of writing hateful letters that “dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion” (Jackson 194) of her fellow neighbors. It is unveiled ‚through the actions of Dave Harris‚ when the loose letter is delivered to the addressee ‚Done Crane‚ Mrs. Strangeworth becomes no longer anonymous amongst her fellow neighbors. The disenfranchised neighbors of Mrs. Strangeworth exhibit their feelings of her execrable
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