Saturday, September 22, 2012
The Possibility of Evil
"She was seventy-one, Miss Strangeworth told the
tourists, with a pretty little dimple showing by her lip, and she sometimes found
herself thinking that the town belonged to her. “My grandfather built the first
house on Pleasant Street,” she would say, opening her blue eyes with the wonder
of it. This house, right here. My family has lived here for better than a hundred
years. My grandmother planted these roses, and my mother tended them, just as
I do.”..."
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I chose this quote because this paragraph shows the characteristic of Miss Stangeworth. Miss Stangeworth is friendly to all the residents in this town. She is also an extremely self- centered person. She probably thinks that she is the queen of this town.
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