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Miss Strangeworth : The Worst Character Of Miss Strangeworth

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This essay is to explain why of all the characters of the short stories we read that Miss. Strangeworth is the worst character and why. These characters come from the short stories And of Clay We are Created, To Build a Fire, The Possibility of Evil, The Interlopers, Two Friends and How Much Land Does a Man Need? The characters in these stories are unique in the ways that they could be evil, such as having the ability to change something for the better but instead not doing anything at all. Miss strangeworth is the worst of all because she is two-faced, selfish, and very judgemental. First of all I think that Miss Strangeworth is the worst character of all the characters Adela, an old lady, finds pleasure in writing letters to remind people evil is everywhere (Appositive phrase). She is the reason for the whole town having problems with each other. This is because she writes letters to the town in private, discussing problems with people and what is wrong with them. This causes a lot of problems within the community and distrust, ”She had been writing her letters sometimes two or three every day for a week, sometimes no more than once a month, for the past year. She never had gotten any answers, of course, because she had never signed her name” (Jackson 194). She interferes with the community by judging people with her letters, and she even knows that this is wrong because the fact that she writes her letters in private and only sends them when it is late at night so no one can see her. That just shows that she may pretend like she does not know what she is doing, but really she does know that sending those letters is hurting the people around her, because she writes them in private, and sends them anonymously. (Jackson 186-198) Then, in To Build A Fire the unnamed character does not listen to the men in the Yukon that he should not go outside because it is too cold for him. This is not a real example of evil because the only problem he causes was endangering his life and his dog. Compared to other stories where someone is much more evil and does much worse things, he merely thought that he was smarter than the other men so he did not have to listen to them, which was wrong but it didn't

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