![]() ![]() ![]() 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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