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Examine Shirley Jackson's use of setting in her short story, "The Possibility of Evil."
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In this essay I will examine Shirley Jackson's use of setting in her short story, "The Possibility of Evil." I will discuss why Jackson's choice of a small town setting is crucial to understanding the plot of her story. I will also consider her implications about the nature of evil and will demonstrate how the author is not at all sympathetic to her main character, Miss Strangeworth. Shirley Jackson is deliberately vague about the setting, leaving the reader free to concentrate instead on the human condition present in the story. Though we are not given a specific time and place or even the name of the town, we are given enough detail to know that it could be any small town. Jackson wants us to understand that the potential for evil exists anywhere and everywhere, even in the smallest, most unlikely and safe-seeming places and people. Her descriptions are all common...
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