Adela Strangeworth Character Analysis

Adela Strangeworth is a very interesting person. She is a perfectionist. She is also deceptive and she is a know-it-all. She thinks she knows what is best for everyone. She is very nice is person, but when she gets home and starts writing those letters. She will write and spill all of her petty thoughts about the other citizens’ lives. Destroying any kind of relationships they have with anyone.

She thinks she is absolutely perfect and that everyone that lives around her is not. She dresses sharply, always looking nice. She has a perfect house on a perfect street called “Pleasant Street”. Her house has a lovely patch of roses in the front yard which have been there for years. She tells tourist about her house and when it was built and when the flowers started to grow and how long they have lasted. “People around town wondered how Miss Strangeworth managed to keep her house looking the way it did, there was a legend that a tourist once mistaking it for the local museum and going all through the place not realizing his mistake.” (Jackson, 1941, p.168) Miss Strangeworth will forever and always be perfect in her eyes.

Adela will be talking to someone about anything and the woman or man will talk about something that has happened in his or her life. If someone talks about their child not learning …show more content…
She gets the dirt from people and use their own words against them. “Have you found out yet what they were laughing about after you left the bridge club on Thursday? Or is the wife really the last one to know?” (Jackson, 1941, p.169)Miss Stangeworth writes in the letter. She acts like a guardian of the town, trying to make everything better. Everything and everyone as “perfect” as her. She thinks she’s helping people with the letters she is writing but she is just ripping them apart. She feels good about all the letters she has written until she got