____Quotes
"The town where she lived had to be kept clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, and needed to be watched; the world was so large, and there was only one Strangeworth let in it."
This quote is a testament to the theme of how blind the illusion of doing good--but really doing evil--can make you. She thinks that she is the only person that can save the world from this "evil" that her closed mind sees. Instead of choosing to see the good in the world, she surrounds herself with the negative. The fact that, from this sentence, she thinks she is the only one that can save the world from this evil just confirms her blindness to the point where no other person except her is seen as good.
"YOU NEVER KNOW ABOUT DOCTORS. REMEMBER THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN AND NEED MONEY LIKE THE REST OF US. SUPPOSE THE KNIFE SLIPPED ACCIDENTALLY. WOULD DR. BURNS GET HIS FEE AND A LITTLE EXTRA FROM THAT NEPHEW OF YOURS?"
This quote shows how Miss Strangworth is very pessimistic. She refers to how there could be an accident to the surgery Mrs. Foster will have next month. It also shows the evilness in Miss Strangworth that is not comforting her own neighbor, but actually scaring that person. Just like the quote above, she makes her own surroundings negative. If she is more optimistic, I think that the neighbor can get better and brighter. The letters containing such harsh words for the people should change into letters that praise or comfort others from the neighbor.
This quote is a testament to the theme of how blind the illusion of doing good--but really doing evil--can make you. She thinks that she is the only person that can save the world from this "evil" that her closed mind sees. Instead of choosing to see the good in the world, she surrounds herself with the negative. The fact that, from this sentence, she thinks she is the only one that can save the world from this evil just confirms her blindness to the point where no other person except her is seen as good.
"YOU NEVER KNOW ABOUT DOCTORS. REMEMBER THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN AND NEED MONEY LIKE THE REST OF US. SUPPOSE THE KNIFE SLIPPED ACCIDENTALLY. WOULD DR. BURNS GET HIS FEE AND A LITTLE EXTRA FROM THAT NEPHEW OF YOURS?"
This quote shows how Miss Strangworth is very pessimistic. She refers to how there could be an accident to the surgery Mrs. Foster will have next month. It also shows the evilness in Miss Strangworth that is not comforting her own neighbor, but actually scaring that person. Just like the quote above, she makes her own surroundings negative. If she is more optimistic, I think that the neighbor can get better and brighter. The letters containing such harsh words for the people should change into letters that praise or comfort others from the neighbor.