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Adela Strangeworth In The Possibility Of Evil By Shirley Jackson

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In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, Miss. Adela Strangeworth is introduced as a 71 year old woman who is extremely passionate of her rose garden, but she is also passionate about the people in her town. She could not even walk around town without being stopped to talk and ask about how everyone was. Adela Strangeworth seems to know everything about everyone, but this knowledge also exposed her to all of the hidden evils in her small, familiar town. Adela wanted nothing more than to get rid of the evil that was around her. To do this, Miss. Strangeworth decided to write anonymous letters to some of the people in her community. In paragraph 5 the reader gets an idea of how many letters she writes, “She had been
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