Miss Strangeworth- Main Character
"She knew everyone in town, of course; she was fond of telling strangers—tourists who sometimes passed through the town and stopped to admire Miss Strangeworth's roses—that she had never spent more than a day outside this town in all her long life. 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 wide 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. I've watched my town grow; I can remember when Mr. Lewis, Senior, opened the grocery store, and the year the year the river flooded out the shanties on the low road, and the excitement when some young folks wanted to move the park over to the space in front of where the new post office is today. They wanted to put up a statue of Ethan Allen"—Miss Strangeworth would frown a little and sound stern—"but it should have been a statue of my grandfather. There wouldn't have been a town here at all if it hadn't been for my grandfather and the lumber mill."
An example of what Miss
Strangeworth could have This quote is very long, but it tells a lot about Miss Strangeworth. In this quote, it Miss Strangeworth is portrayed as a very stuck up and
looked like. brags to everyone about how her father built the town and how she has been there the whole time. It also introduces her roses. Miss
Strangeworth's roses are her life. She tends to them all the time, and will not let anyone pick them except herself. It tells that Miss
Strangeworth is 71 years old and that she tells people that, bragging about how she is so important because she has been in the town
for so long. She is very selfish and brags about her family all of the time to everyone she has the chance. She believes that the town
should revolve around her family because technically they started it.
"From halfway down the block Miss Strangeworth could catch the heavy scent of her roses, and she moved a little more quickly. The perfume of roses meant home, and home meant the Strangeworth House on Pleasant Street. Miss Strangeworth stopped at her own front gate, as she always did, and looked with deep pleasure at her house, with the red and pink and white roses massed along the narrow lawn, and the rambler going up along the porch; and the neat, the unbelievably trim lines of the house itself, with its slimness and its washed white look. Every window sparkled, every curtain hung stiff and straight, and even the stones of the front walk were swept and clear. People around town wondered how old Miss Strangeworth managed to keep the house looking the way it did, and there was a legend about a tourist once mistaking it for the local museum and going all through the place without finding out about his mistake. But the town was proud of Miss Strangeworth and her roses and her house. They had all grown together."
This quote shows how Miss Strangeworth is a perfectionist. Every detail of her house is perfect. it is perfectly clean, her roses are perfectly pruned. All of this is a cover for who Miss Strangeworth really is. Her cover shows a quaint little old lady who has a grand house but lives a simple life. But, in reality she sees everyone and is trying to make other people look bad for her own fun.
An example of what Miss
Strangeworth could have This quote is very long, but it tells a lot about Miss Strangeworth. In this quote, it Miss Strangeworth is portrayed as a very stuck up and
looked like. brags to everyone about how her father built the town and how she has been there the whole time. It also introduces her roses. Miss
Strangeworth's roses are her life. She tends to them all the time, and will not let anyone pick them except herself. It tells that Miss
Strangeworth is 71 years old and that she tells people that, bragging about how she is so important because she has been in the town
for so long. She is very selfish and brags about her family all of the time to everyone she has the chance. She believes that the town
should revolve around her family because technically they started it.
"From halfway down the block Miss Strangeworth could catch the heavy scent of her roses, and she moved a little more quickly. The perfume of roses meant home, and home meant the Strangeworth House on Pleasant Street. Miss Strangeworth stopped at her own front gate, as she always did, and looked with deep pleasure at her house, with the red and pink and white roses massed along the narrow lawn, and the rambler going up along the porch; and the neat, the unbelievably trim lines of the house itself, with its slimness and its washed white look. Every window sparkled, every curtain hung stiff and straight, and even the stones of the front walk were swept and clear. People around town wondered how old Miss Strangeworth managed to keep the house looking the way it did, and there was a legend about a tourist once mistaking it for the local museum and going all through the place without finding out about his mistake. But the town was proud of Miss Strangeworth and her roses and her house. They had all grown together."
This quote shows how Miss Strangeworth is a perfectionist. Every detail of her house is perfect. it is perfectly clean, her roses are perfectly pruned. All of this is a cover for who Miss Strangeworth really is. Her cover shows a quaint little old lady who has a grand house but lives a simple life. But, in reality she sees everyone and is trying to make other people look bad for her own fun.
Miss Strangeworth overall
"There were so many wicked people in the world and only one Strangeworth left in the town."
Miss Strangeworth acts like she is such an angel and does everything right. But, in reality she judges people, eavesdrops, tries to ruin people's lives, and is selfish. She appears as a nice old lady but that is just a cover for all the bad things she does. She even extenuates this cover by saying how this is her town and she is in charge of looking after it. She is a perfectionist about her house and roses, and is also selfish by not letting her town enjoy the beautiful roses she has in her yard. We learn at the end of the story that she writes letters judging people to make other people look bad and causes trouble in her town. She takes pleasure in this and in the end is discovered to be evil.
Miss Strangeworth acts like she is such an angel and does everything right. But, in reality she judges people, eavesdrops, tries to ruin people's lives, and is selfish. She appears as a nice old lady but that is just a cover for all the bad things she does. She even extenuates this cover by saying how this is her town and she is in charge of looking after it. She is a perfectionist about her house and roses, and is also selfish by not letting her town enjoy the beautiful roses she has in her yard. We learn at the end of the story that she writes letters judging people to make other people look bad and causes trouble in her town. She takes pleasure in this and in the end is discovered to be evil.