ipl-logo

Miss Strangeworth's Unethical Decisions

449 Words2 Pages

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. Miss Strangeworth makes unethical decisions that lead to hurt feelings among the people in her town. She wrote atrocious and repulsive letters to people such as Don Crane, Mrs. Harper, and Mrs. Harper. When Don Crane received the letter he then got exasperated and destroyed Miss …show more content…

Miss Strangeworth tarnished the relationship between Dave Harris and Linda Stewart. She corrupted the relationship between Mrs. Harper and her husband. Miss Strangeworth also besmirched the relationship between Mrs. Crane and her daughter. Now that everyone knows Miss Strangeworth wrote the letters it corrupted the relationship between her and the town. In conclusion, Miss Strangeworth thought that the town people were corrupt and evil, but it was actually her. Miss Strangeworth makes unethical decisions that lead to hurt feelings among the people in her town. Miss Strangeworth’s intentions are to protect the town’s people from evil while her external actions create her own type of evil. Miss Strangeworth corrupts the relationships of the other people in town toward one another and towards her. In the words of Albert Einstein “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

Show More
Related
691 Words | 3 Pages

For most people, the words evil and harsh are not the typical traits used to describe an elderly woman. However, in the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, the 71 year old character Miss Adela Strangeworth, has a dark predatory nature hiding behind her highly respectable and sweet exterior. She preys upon her peers by misleading them into thinking everything is fine, only to subsequently tear them down. She accomplishes this by concealing her cruel, deceitful and perfectionist personality by maintaining an honourable reputation within her town. Miss Strangeworth shows no mercy when she anonymously reveals secrets about the family and lives of people in her community.

Read More
496 Words | 2 Pages

In “The Possibility of Evil”, Shirley Jackson utilizes irony and point of view to support a theme of negative outcomes in spite of good intent. Repeatedly Miss Strangeworth is trying to correct peoples ways of life but actually is causing them pain and sorrow. One demonstration of this is where it says “She was pleased with her letter. She was fond of doing things exactly right”, (Jackson 4). Miss Strangeworth writes to families to correct them and let them know exactly what her opinion is on the matter and it brings them hurt.

Read More
726 Words | 3 Pages

Is Ms. Strangeworth a victim OR villain In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” written by Shirley Jackson, the protagonist Ms. Strangeworth is a villain because she isn’t what everyone’s aspect of her is, she is very deceptive, and the letters she sends are the very cause of the evil she’s trying to stop. Ms. Strangeworth is a seventy-one-year-old lady who lives in a little town, which she thinks is her own. She always feels the need to know everything, about everyone. Even though, no one knows who she really is.

Read More
1091 Words | 5 Pages

He reveals to Mildred all the books he stole over the years. At the sight of the books, Mildred was terrified and wanted nothing to do with the books. She would rather listen to her “family” than her

Read More
781 Words | 4 Pages

In the short story, “The Possibility of Evil” you can right away tell by the title that there will be some kind of evil going around. In the story there is a lady called Miss strangeworth who in the end turns out to be a bully. However, Miss Strangeworth is not a physical bully, she is in a way a cyber bully but instead of posting or sending messages she writes multiple letters to people in her town pointing out certain things she’s noticed. Throughout the story no one knows who is sending the letters, this is being anonymous. In the article “The Online Disinhibition Effect” it also gives examples of how one can keep their identity hidden by going as “anonymous” In the short story “The Possibility of Evil” it says that “her letters dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion,” this not only proves that she would send multiple letters.

Read More
430 Words | 2 Pages

Miss Strangeworth, a character in the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, who is a complex character that is fond of taking care of her roses and helping people in the to wn. Because Miss Strangeworth is a deceptive, narrow minded lady with a God complex, her style of help is very strange.

Read More
390 Words | 2 Pages

Typically, the "bad guy" is easy to spot. He wears black, sneaks around in the shadows, and intention is to destroy. But maybe evil is hidden where it is least expected. Sometimes the blindfold that people become so accustomed to, must be removed to see the true corruption.

Read More
512 Words | 3 Pages

In the ‘’The Possibility of Evil’’ Mrs Strangeworth is spreading rumours about the people in the community. By Mrs Strangeworth sending those letters to people saying things to try and keep the community at peace when all it was really do was causing problems within the community the author of the short story used that conflict to show man 's inhumanity to man. When the boy finds the letters and figures out who has been writing them he tells Miss Strangeworth that the community now knows who has been writing the letters and spreading things that are not true. Miss Strangeworth thinks that informing the community of things that are happening around them that she sees and thinks that is going on she thinks she is helping them out but she 's really just causing problems with the community and making the people

Read More
168 Words | 1 Pages

The short stories; The Most Dangerous by Richard Connell,The Necklace by Guy something, The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson all deal with characters who are dominated by their evil nature. Mrs.Strangeworth destroys lives by spreading untruthful rumors contaminating her own town with negativity. Madame Loisel is dominated by greed and leads her family into financial ruin. General Zaroff has a lust for blood and kills people for pleasure. Mrs. Strangeworth however, is the most destructive of the three because she takes pleasure in her malevolent actions.

Read More
862 Words | 4 Pages

While Mr.Shiftlet is obviously a man of very rotten morals, Mrs. Crater is not innocent either. She shows her low-moral fiber by her desire to rid herself of her mentally handicapped daughter by pawning her off to a man that she has only known for a relatively short period of time. When examining the writing itself, there are metaphors and similes as well as some comments that speak on the world being rotten as a whole. For example, when Mr. Shiftlet is talking with Mrs. Crater and says that “... The world is almost rotten” This is an obvious use of irony that calls to attention Mr. Shiftlet’s rottenness by trying to seem righteous and condemn the world for its moral failings while he

Read More
1651 Words | 7 Pages

Regardless of these characters' actions, most of the townspeople in Salem do not realize that they are being manipulated through terror and losing their potential. This unveils the question of whether our society is blindly subjected to someone's reach for power, meaning the fear they may generate and how it is used to manipulate the

Read More
752 Words | 4 Pages

Mother of Education Some children are not as fortunate to be given wonderful lives like their peers. Furthermore, the mother and father of every little boy and little girl do not always set the best examples. In “The Lesson”, Miss Moore seeks to educate the children of the neighborhood. She takes them to a store in town, trying to help them better understand the issues with income inequality. Confidence, intelligence, and passion-- these are all qualities that Miss Moore, a motherly figure, exhibits while impacting the children 's education.

Read More
1054 Words | 5 Pages

In some ways, you could argue that both the misfit like the grandma are both good and evil. At the end, although the grandmother had made the misfit rethink his actions he had to regrettably kill her at the end. There was a moment of truth here, though, and that was that people are inherently flawed no matter how much good they are perceived to be. It is rather the acceptance of this flaw that creates better human

Read More
610 Words | 3 Pages

By all appearances, Miss Strangeworth is a sweet, old lady, living in a perfect, shiny, happy town. But appearances are not everything, especially in the case of Miss Adela Strangeworth of Pleasant Street. Miss Adela Strangeworth, a character in the short story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, is a 71-year-old spinster living in a small town in the 1940’s. At the beginning, she seems like any normal old lady, but it is quickly realized that this is not the case and that she has a dark side. Of the many traits that Miss Strangeworth possesses, the most prominent are her deceptiveness, perfectionism, and the god complex that has developed.

Read More
1214 Words | 5 Pages

Again, Mrs. Turners intentions are good. She tries to take care of her garden and make it look nice in the spirit of her husband. The people that Mrs. Turner has met throughout her life, have had an opinion about her, and her way of living. Despite the prejudice, she acts unruffled, and does not care. Her ignorance plays a big role in her life.

Read More

More about Miss Strangeworth's Unethical Decisions

Related Topics

Open Document