![]() ![]() Merricatįrom page one until the end of the book we are in Mary Katherine’s (Merricat’s) head constantly. Trigger Warning: Murder, mental illness and talking about sexual abuse (in the Conclusion only). I’m not here to change your mind about the book but give you my interpretation of the events and my theories as to the mystery and the characters themselves and the conclusion that I came to. The most common complaints that I see in reviews is that it’s not scary, the mystery is too easy to figure out, the characters are too weird, it’s boring and part of the mystery is left unanswered. ![]() Even the ‘mystery’ of what happened to the Blackwoods isn’t too much of a mystery. There’s not much happening on the surface of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It aligns itself more with the Gothics rather than horror so people who read it looking for a horror story generally come away confused and bored. It’s generally listed in the ‘horror’ category or, alternately, ‘Gothic’. We Have Always Lived in the Castle can be a very confusing book. Merricat, well, she’s a little harder to pin down, as are the characters around her. Eleanor’s issues are much more to the forefront and much easier to see. Eleanor and Merricat don’t have much in common, however. Both books deal with disturbed young women. On the surface they can seem very similar. We Have Always Lived in the Castle generally gets eclipsed by Shirley Jackson’s more well-known book, The Haunting of Hill House. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ![]()
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