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Cruelty In The Possibility Of Evil By Shirley Jackson

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In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, it is demonstrated that one can be unnecessarily cruel with their actions and thought without being aware of it through character’s actions, irony, and symbolism. Firstly, unnecessary cruelty is shown through the character’s action of Miss Strangeworth. Miss Strangeworth has written many anonymous letters to people in her town to help them. After she burned the pages over the kitchen stove to get rid of her mistake, She decided to write another letter, “perhaps to Mrs. Harper, to follow up the ones she had already mailed. She picked up a green sheet this time and wrote quickly”(Jackson 226). A1: Miss Strangeworth believes that her evil anonymous letter will help the people that
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