![]() ![]() In the 2016 biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin, the book is introduced as follows: Everyone else in my family is dead.”Īnalysis of We Have Always Lived in the Castle I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantaganet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. ![]() The opening paragraph of We Have Always Lived in the Castle is iconic, and pure Shirley Jackson: This critically acclaimed novel is considered one of Jackson’s masterpieces and it has been an inspiration to authors that came after who write in the thriller and mystery genres. ![]() The Blackwoods have been shunned by the neighbors in the nearby village due to a tragedy - murder by poisoning - that occurred some years earlier. The narrator, Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood, lives with her sister and uncle on an isolated estate in rural Vermont. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) was the last published work by Shirley Jacksonduring her lifetime. ![]()
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