Plot
Miss Strangeworth's favorite flower
What are roses?
This character "shouldn't have children" according to Miss Strangeworth.
What is Helen Crane?
The symbol for the townspeople.
What are the roses?
The reason Miss Strangworth feels responsible for the town.
What is she is a Strangeworth?
The street on which Miss Strangeworth lives.
What is Pleasant street?
The town's grocier who went to school with Miss Strangeworth.
Who is Mr. Lewis?
The conflict represented by Miss Strangeworth's belief that she is helping her town by writing anonymous letters.
What is person vs. society?
Miss Strangeworth's grandfather built this on Pleasant street.
What is the first house?
The thing Miss Strangeworth does to to hide her identity when she writes letters.
What is using different colored paper and changing her hand writing?
The character who is "not looking well" according to Miss Strangeworth.
Who is Martha Hooper?
The message behind the note to Miss Strangeworth.
What is "you made life worse for everybody."
The city/country where Shirley Jackson was born.
What is San Francisco, USA?
The event that revealed Miss Strangeworth as the secret author of the letters.
What is dropping a letter on the ground in front of the post office?
This character picked up the letter that Miss Strangeworth dropped.
Who is the Harris boy?
The literary device that Jackson uses to highlight a contrast between the pleasant nature of the town and Miss Strangeworth's cruelty.
What is irony?
The profession of Miss Strangeworth's father.
What is not mentioned in the story?
What was written on the note to Miss Strangeworth
What is "Look out at what used to be your roses"?
Miss Strangeworth's first name.
What is Adela?
Shirley Jackson uses TPOE to show the inherent subjectivity of 'proper' behavior and morality as well as reveal the danger of anonymity to society.
What is a sleep-deprived attempt at a thematic statement?
The types of stories that Shirley Jackson is best known for.
What are horror and mystery?