Last night, on September 12th, by 1337 Elington drive, Ms.Adela Strangeworth’s roses were supposedly vandalized by an unknown towns person. There has been speculation as to why a towns person vandalized Ms.Adela Strangeworth’s roses. Townspeople have recently called out Ms. Strangeworth for harassment in the form of letters that she sent them anonymously, and townsperson angered by Ms.Strangeworth’s letters most likely ruined her flowers. The roses were allegedly cut down with a knife or a similar sharp object and damaged by a lot of force. A few hours after Ms.Adela Strangeworth reported the incident, most townspeople were aloof about the matter, while others were sympathetic.
Elizabeth Anne is presented as a sympathetic character in the short story "Elizabeth Takes the Reins". Elizabeth is portrayed as the "sensitive" main character who later learns to do small things on her own. There are three primary reasons that show she is a sensitive character. First, she was forced to go somewhere she did not want to go. Secondly her aunt, named Frances has either died or has gone somewhere, third her Great-Uncle Henry has no sympathy towards her at all.
She acts in a caring manner to everyone’s face, but when she is alone, she becomes a heartless woman, determined to reveal what she knows. Miss Strangeworth is the one causing the distress in her community, yet she acts oblivious as to what is bothering everyone. She shows her extreme deceitfulness by attempting to ease Helen Crane’s concern about her child by saying “Nonsense… some of them develop… more quickly than others” (Jackson, 1941, p. 167). This is deceitful because she is aware that there is something different about the child and instead of voicing that, she consoles the mother, only to subsequently shatter her in an anonymous letter. Additionally, Miss Strangeworth cleverly utilizes the most common paper and envelops all townspeople use for her letters.
In “Half Walls between Us,” imagery is strongly expressed through Maria Said’s choice of words. For example, Said says, “On my first visit to Agordat, a small town in Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, I fell in love with its mystery, its quiet, its soft sandy colors,” which gives a strong image of the setting (Said 79). To express strong imagery is to give great detail, explain settings, and compare and contrast the surroundings. To have imagery in a story or essay is to give visual effects for the reader to see while being intrigued into a new story. Giving great details to express imagery in “Half Walls between Us” shows the different places and sights she has seen.
The author of this short story- Shirley Jackson begins the story by introducing Miss Adela Strangeworth as a sweet old lady “Miss Adela Strangeworth came daintily along Main Street on her way to the grocery.” And she pathetic fallacy to mimic nice mood “The sun was shining, the air was fresh and clear after the night’s heavy rain, and everything in Miss Strangeworth’s little town looked washed and bright. Shirley Jackson clearly wants the reader’s perspective on Miss Strangeworth to be pleasant,
This quote also gives you an idea of how Miss Strangeworth enjoyed gossip or talking about someone behind their back. Miss Strangeworth was writing letters to “The town where she lived had to be kept clean and sweet” it's ironic how she could say this when in reality she was doing all the evil of the town. The way Miss
Albert Einstein once said “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” Miss Strangeworth makes unethical decisions that supplemented to hurt feelings amongst the people in her town. Miss Strangeworth’s intentions are to shield the town’s people from evil while her external actions create her own form of evil. Miss Strangeworth corrupts the relationships of the other people in town toward one another and towards her. Truly, Miss Strangeworth assumed that the town people were corrupt and evil, but in reality Miss Strangeworth.
Margaret Laurence’s “Where the World Began” is an essay focused on describing her most adored childhood memories while growing up in the apparent “dull, bleak, flat, uninteresting” plains of the Canadian Prairies (Laurence 58). However throughout her essay Laurence does not simply give depictions of her prairie birthplace or her childhood. She strategically uses these examples to help portray Canada and the astonishing affection she holds towards the nation. Through the intense details of Laurence’s prairie birthplace she describes the lively landscape, activities she once enjoyed, and the stories of the abnormalities that made her hometown energetic and alive. Laurence constantly poses the question, “how can a town so flourishing be considered
The story opens with Mrs. Wright imprisoned for strangling her husband. A group, the mostly composed of men, travel to the Wright house in the hopes that they find incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright. Instead, the two women of the group discover evidence of Mr. Wright’s abuse of his wife. Through the women’s unique perspective, the reader glimpses the reality of the situation and realizes that, though it seemed unreasonable at the time, Mrs. Wright had carefully calculated her actions. When asked about the Wrights, one of the women, Mrs. Hale, replies “I don’t think a place would be a cheerful for John Wright’s being in it” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 7).
There are multiple passages in the story that suggest that something about the colonial mansion is out of sorts. One moment stands out towards the end of the exposition of the story when the narrator summarizes how she feels
However, when she goes back home to write her letter she then writes that “Mr. Lewis would never have imagined for a minute that his grandson might be lifting petty cash from the store register if he had not had one of Miss. Strangeworth’s letters” (Jackson 5). This behavior uncovers that when she is anonymous she
“You girls ought not to be keepin company with that stable boy, tongues get to waggin’, for months he been coming round here and you girls runnin bout the plantation with him. Mind that you never mention Harriet to the missis, she like to die, with her son John away at boarding school and Mr. Washington threatening to go to war she can’t handle it. Come on now, let’s get ready, Mrs. Washington want yaul in the library.” When they entered the library there was a strange woman sitting across from Mrs. Washington, she was holding a cup of tea. Her blonde curls were tucked tightly in the shape of an oval and she wore round spectacles that sat strangely on the brim of her
“Miss Strangeworth is a familiar fixture in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. Little do the townsfolk suspect, though, that the dignified old woman leads another, secret life…”. A secret life can be evil or good, in Miss Strangeworth’s case it is suitable, but do others appreciate this secret life. In The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson illustrates inner thinking, revealing action, and symbolism to show how Miss Strangeworth tends the people like her roses, but truly state's them evil.
As a result, the novel explores the idea that place can shape a person's identity and sense of belonging. For instance, Kya's intimate knowledge of the marshlands allows her to find food and shelter, and her appreciation of its natural beauty becomes a source of solace and inspiration for her. Additionally, the marsh provides her with a sense of safety and privacy, which is crucial given her troubled past and the way she is ostracized by the nearby town (Owens 12-15). Thus, the novel suggests that the power of place extends beyond the physical and practical aspects of a location, and encompasses emotional and psychological dimensions as
She is basically saying that the people of this town had treated the town so poorly and used so much pesticides that it looked like
