It Was For the Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre In the novel Candide, Pangloss’ response to all of the misfortunes in the world was that "This is the best of all possible worlds." Voltaire expressed this belief throughout the novel, and proved that many of the hardship’s and evil’s that Candide experienced were all for the best. He also proved that even the outcome of something tragic could be looked at in an optimistic view. On December 7, 1993, the world as Carolyn McCarthy knew came to an end. A sudden, irrational, and inconceivable act of violence destroyed her family. Dennis and Kevin McCarthy were