Shirley Jackson uses many symbols in the short story “The Possibility of Evil”. Jackson uses symbols such as Ms. Strangeworth’s flowers, the letters, her locked door, and the name of the street they live in, “Pleasant Street”. She uses the flowers to represent the personality of Ms. Strangeworth. The flowers are beautiful, smell nice and overall are good flowers. But then again all roses have their thorns. This could mean that Ms. Strangeworth looks like a good person but secretly she has an evil personality or is very judgemental. The letters that Ms.Strangeworth was writing could represent her judgement against other people or the evilness that is in other people. Ms. Strangeworth’s flowers mean a lot to her and she takes care of the as if
