Lenses By Shirley Jackson Analysis

Coming of age is a time of trials and triumph’s in a young adolescent’s life. It can involve many obstacles that need to be overcome in order to become an adult. The story “Lenses”, by Leah Silverman, is about a twenty years old girl name Grusha who is a pilot that needs her eyes replace with mechanical eyes. However, her surgeon, Corinne, doesn’t want to replace her eyes because her new eyes will not be brown, and they will not shine with her laughter, which means it will be dull and colourless. Furthermore, “The Possibility of Evil”, by Shirley Jackson, is about an old woman name Adela Strangeworth, who loves to give out letters to her neighbours to try and reach out to help them with their situations. Throughout these two stories, the characters experiences an

One is through the conflict of the story, another is through the setting, and lastly it is through the decision of the characters.
Firstly, the characters faces an epiphany through the conflict. In comparison both the characters in the story faces a conflict. However, in “Lenses”, the surgeon Corinne faces a conflict of person vs. self. It starts with Grusha who asks Corinne to perform the surgery, though Corinne the expert, doesn’t want to do it, but she knows the consequences of not doing the operation. Nonetheless, if she does proceed with the surgery she would take away a beautiful part of Grusha, but if she doesn’t, Grusha could eventually go blind from the sun. Either way Corinne knows she has to do the surgery, even though she is taking away Grusha’s beauty. “Tomorrow, I must take Grusha’s eyes out. She specifically requested that I be the one to do it… I would not have performed this operation, except that Grusha asked me to. There are ways of getting out doing the surgery, if you know of them. I could have said I was sick… But Grusha asked me, so I must do it” (43). In this situation, Corinne is having some problems of whether she should do