Miss Strangeworth's Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder commonly known, as multi-personality is a rare condition in which a person can be two-faced showing two distinct personality states. Consequently, this disorder may be difficult to spot because these states are usually portrayed differently depending on the audiences. Miss Strangeworth has multi-personality. To the people of her town, she is a sweet, aged woman. However, in the protection of her home, she has an evil side affecting her fellow citizens negatively. Every morning she would stop to wave or ask her neighbors how their day was going. “When she came, half a dozen people turned, to wave at her or call out a good morning” (2). Miss Strangeworth seemed like a friendly, talkative woman. She was seventy-one, never having left her town over a day. A model citizen some would say. For instance, she was always ready to give her advice. In the story, Mrs. Crane worried her baby girl was moving too slowly. Miss Strangeworth reassured her, this

However, her evil appears higher than average. She feels obliged “to keep her town alert” “as long as evil existed unchecked in the world” (4). The elderly woman caused so much sorrow, to others, from her suspicions because she “never concerned herself with the facts” (4). As many would say, she enjoyed stirring the pot. Linda Stewart’s life was affected because of Miss Strangeworth. The parents of Linda and Dave received a letter from her. She wrote of an issue between the children. Even though Miss Strangeworth wrote the letter, she “would have been genuinely shocked if there had been anything between Linda Stewart and the Harris boy” (4). Due to her letter, the children were no longer permitted to visit each other. Miss Strangeworth had been writing her hurtful, deceitful letters “for the past year” (5). She ‘made a point of mailing her letters secretly”, by timing her walk, camouflaged by the darkness of the night