the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

It is mentioned by the narrator that during her whole life, Eleanor was looking for something like Hill House which depicts that instead of having family and familiar surroundings she felt like a stranger between them. Montague’s list because her family was involved in a publicized incident in which a shower of stones had fallen on their house when she was twelve. Eleanor, thirty-two, has spent most of her adult life caring for her manipulative mother, who always passed passive-aggressive comments to her. Only four people responded to his letter, out of which two agreed to come! The characters in The Haunting of Hill House are well-developed, with Eleanor Vance, the highly involved one. He wrote a letter to a dozen people to spend all or a part of summer at the house mentioning the facilities it had. Being careful and conscientious he short-listed the people with whom he can live in the house and see what happened there. It is narrated that he had been looking for an honestly haunted house throughout his life and when he found it there was no chance of letting it go. Montague was working on the causes and effects of psychic disturbances in a house commonly known as haunted. It means although the house appears well-built and brawny, it is surely ‘not sane.’ Additionally, when the writer mentions, “whatever walked there walked alone,” it assists the reader to interpret that something non-human, maybe supernatural walks over its floors.

The first paragraph of the novel depicts that it has stood there for about eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Hill House stands on the rural town of Hillsdale. It is represented as an excellent vehicle that drives all the darkness and the power of supernatural manifestations. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, in which the house itself plays a significant role because the haunted house functions as a central focus of the novel.

The haunting of hill house by shirley jackson