![]() They each see and feel things, and then cover them up with a shrug. As the days pass, more and more is left unsaid between our characters and what is said is a lie. Montague and Luke Sanderson, Hill House's to-be heir, play into each one's fears, trust breaks down and our characters soon become lost in the thicket of Hill House's halls. But as dynamics with the others, including Dr. ![]() ![]() She is met there by Theodora, whose effervescent confidence and wit contrast Eleanor's self-consciousness and life-long sense of waiting- waiting to find her true "home." At first, Eleanor and Theodora cling to one another equally, as new friends hopeful for an exciting summer in a new place. Įleanor Vance, our protagonist, journeys to Hill House after being invited by a Doctor Montague- a man studying the supernatural, who is eager for companions to assist him in taking notes while inhabiting Hill House for a summer. ![]() ![]() Shirley Jackson's novel does what few other haunted-house stories do: It explores loneliness not just as an aesthetic- manifested by a house hidden among the hills, quarantined off from the rest of town, shrouded in local myth rather, loneliness in the pages of Hill House is a strategy, a cause and an effect of being haunted, a requisite for a darker belonging. The Haunting of Hill House to me is a story about being unwanted and how dangerous that feeling can be when paired with a malicious force that wants you. ![]()
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