Must contradictory personalities get the best of us? The Possibility of Evil, a short story by Shirley Jackson focused on the odd behavior of Miss Strangeworth. Though Miss Strangeworth does not changed throughout the story, people just does not know how awful she is. As a lonely woman, Miss Strangeworth has written small notes filled with cruelty toward her towns folks throughout the story.

Miss Strangeworth enjoyed writing awful letters to her neighbors, showing her jealous personality towards her neighbors. "After thinking for a minute, although she had been phrasing the letter in the back of her mind all the way home, she wrote on a pink sheet: DIDN'T YOU EVER SEE AN IDIOT CHILD BEFORE? SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN SHOULD THEY? She was pleased with the letter." I suppose Miss Strangeworth wrote this letter because deep down, she does...