Miss Strangeworth's The Possibility Of Evil

In The Possibility of Evil an old lady named Miss Strangeworth seemed like a very friendly person and many people liked her and enjoyed being around her. As the story started unfolding she always thought she knew more about others and thought they were all acting different. At the end of the story it was revealed that Miss Strangeworth would send letters to everybody in the town that she thought had problems she didn’t like. Some people in the town eventually uncovered her identity and as revenge they sent her a letter that said they had destroyed her precious flowers that had been with her family for years; her punishment in the end did fit the crime because of all the drama she had created, but the people who destroyed the flowers still did the wrong thing. Miss Strangeworth deserved what she got but it was still wrong on the half of the people who did the destroying of the flowers. Miss Strangeworth as a character was an old, friendly lady in the beginning of the story; everyone in the town was friendly to her and seemed to like her a lot. As the story unfolded Miss Strangeworth seemed to become more controlling and just plain out rude to other people because she thought she was better than them and could help everyone with their problems. As it turns out, in the end of the story Miss …show more content…
From the outside she seemed like a genuine old lady who was friendly and caring for others. Nobody around her knew that she was the person who was calling out everybody’s problems in the town while being incognito. Finally, when some of the people found out who was writing the letters they did what she was doing to them, hurting their feelings. So the people who found out about the letters destroyed the only thing Miss Strangeworth cared about which was her flowers. That was the only way they could get equal with her and hurt her feeling just like she did with