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If you like Shirley Jackson and her grotesque images of humanity, if you're feeling cynical about human society, or just like twisted and stunted characters, Jackson's your gal. Best known for the creepy short story The Lottery, her novel We have Always Lived in the Castle is another story about the cruelty of humankind, the incessant social pressure of small towns to keep their members in line and the temptation it all produces to wall yourself off in a castle and never come out! The story is told by a mentally disturbed narrator which provides the reader with an uncomfortable though thrilling closeness to insanity and neurosis and not a small part of the creepiness of the novel is produced by this technique. Jackson is a genius of the most recessed and hidden parts of the human psyche and this novel is one of her best.
Crossposted at my blog, www.LuckyWhiteGirl.com
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
barbara howe, March 21, 2007
If you like Shirley Jackson and her grotesque images of humanity, if you're feeling cynical about human society, or just like twisted and stunted characters, Jackson's your gal. Best known for the creepy short story The Lottery, her novel We have Always Lived in the Castle is another story about the cruelty of humankind, the incessant social pressure of small towns to keep their members in line and the temptation it all produces to wall yourself off in a castle and never come out! The story is told by a mentally disturbed narrator which provides the reader with an uncomfortable though thrilling closeness to insanity and neurosis and not a small part of the creepiness of the novel is produced by this technique. Jackson is a genius of the most recessed and hidden parts of the human psyche and this novel is one of her best.Crossposted at my blog, www.LuckyWhiteGirl.com
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