Possibility of Evil

       
Students need to write a blog entry of an least 1 paragraph explaining the protagonists motivations for her action in “The Possibility of Evil”.  Students need to cite at least three pieces of evidence to support their analysis


    Miss. Strangeworth tries to keep the town just like her grandfather left it, the roses that her grandmother planted never leave Pleasant street. She gets mad when people would even think to take the roses off of Pleasant street. Everyone waves to her when they see her and ask her how she is doing, everyone loves her. There is one thing no one knows about her though. Once a week she writes a letter to someone in the town. The letters she wrote this week were saying things about a husband cheating and another letter saying some people just shouldn't have children. She wrote a letter to Mrs. Foster who is having an operation next month that said this, "YOU NEVER KNOW ABOUT DOTORS. REMEMBER THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN AND NEED MONEY LIKE THE REST OF US. SUPPOSE THE KNIFE SLIPPED ACCIDENTALLY. WOULD DOCTOR BURNS GET HIS FEE AND A LITTLE EXTRA FROM THAT NEPHEW OF YOURS?" Miss. Strangeworth never knew if the information was true but she sends the letters anyway.  At the end Adela says that she needs to keep her town clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, so they needed to be watched.