ironically to analyze society’s potential for evil, even within a jolly, communal and familiar American setting. From the very beginning of the story, the author immediately creates a sense of comfort and security. The scene is introduced, “clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (Jackson 258). The “clear and sunny” morning gives the reader sense of regularity, like it’s just another day in another town. Descriptions such as “the flowers were blossoming profusely” and “the grass was richly green” exaggerate the perfection of the scenery, as if the town is in all ways too perfect and too jolly for the reader to expect any sort of evil to arise out of it,
