Analyzing Mrs. Strangeworth's Character From 'One Evil Lady'

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One Evil Lady
Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does. She is destructive. Mrs. Strangeworth is also very sneaky, and starts lots of strife between people. For example, it says in the passage, “ Miss Strangeworth never concerned herself with facts; her letters all dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion.” It then goes on to say in addition, “Mr. Lewis would never have imagined for a minute that his grandson might be lifting petty cash from the store register.” Therefore this shows us that Miss Strangeworth really likes to stir up drama. Mrs. Strangeworth can be determined as deceitful because of her passion to lie and hurt people. It says in the passage, “Mrs. Strangeworth awakened the next morning with a feeling of intense happiness, and for a minute wondered why, and then remembered that this morning, three people would
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She is dedicated to her society. One example of how I know that she is dedicated to her society, is because it says in the passage, “Clearly she knew everyone in town, of course: she was fond of telling strangers-tourists who sometimes passed through the town, and stopped to admire Miss Strangeworth’s roses-that she had never spent more than a day outside this town in all her long life. This lets us know she is dedicated to her town, because she has never left it. Miss Strangeworth is also very dedicated to this town, probably because of the fact that her family before her was so involved with it. It talks about her and her grandfather’s dedication to the town in the story, where it states, “She was seventy-one, Miss Strangeworth told the tourist, with a pretty little dimple showing off by her lip, and she sometimes found herself thinking that the town belonged to her.” Miss Strangeworth then says, “My grandfather built the first house on pleasent street. “So, this shows us how dedicated to the town she

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