Miss Strangeworth awakened the next morning with a feeling of intense happiness and, for a minute, wondered why, and then remembered that this morning three people would open her letters. Harsh, perhaps, at first, but wickedness was never easily banished, and a clean heart was a scoured heart....
I chose this quote because when I read it, I felt a strong sense of irony. The first was that she was all against "evilness", but was sending letters to people telling them that they're horrible not an action of evilness? It was not her to be judging other people and getting her nose into everyone else's way of living. And, also, she didn't know that the letters were not sent and the truth of the source of the letters was exposed. She didn't know that she was going to be facing some real trouble, and was feeling happy. For readers, who would be able to logically interpret that something bad will happen to her, her feeling of being happy was ironic.
The quote shows that Miss Strangeworth was exhilarated by her behavior of sending caution and justice. However, her happiness indicated the situational irony happened next-- her roses were destroyed. The quote was ironic. She thought that she was delivering justice and advice. In fact, Miss Strangeworth was the evil in the town, who sent harsh letters criticizing townspeople and hurt their feelings.
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