Since Adela has held the Strangeworth inheritance, her family has done so much for the town that she feels ownership of the small town, of PleasantStreet, its roses, and everyone who lives there. “My grandfather built the first house on Pleasant Street…she sometimes found herself thinking that the town belonged to her.” (Jackson 211) Adela feels that it is her responsibility to her citizens for the kind of evil that exists in her modest town, and that she will do it. help your neighbors like your ancestors did. "The town where she lived had to be kept clean and pleasant, but everywhere the people were lewd, wicked, and degraded, and needed to be watched; the world was so big, and there was only one Strangeworth left in it..

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