The Possibility of Evil Motivations

Miss. Strangeworth gives her town's people letters telling them that they need to "open their eyes" to the evil around them. She finds joy in doing this, even though, when the people recivce these letters; their life kinda starts to fall apart and fights begin, along with misunderstandings. She believes she is helping them and that "it was Miss.Strangeworth's duty to keep her town alert to it" (210). Miss. Strangeworth feel's that she own the town, since without her grandfather, there wouldn't have been a town here at all. Not only did she feel that the town's people needed to watch over, but the whole world as well; "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 left in it" (211). Miss. Strangeworth wanted to get rid of all the evil in her town; make sure it's swept clean of the evilness "There was so much evil in people. Even in a charming little town like this one, there was still so much evil in people" (213).
In the end, despite her motivations of writing these letters, her roses were gone when she woke up the next morning.