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Jackson establishes Eleanor as a woman who has never been her own person, and who goes to Hill House seeking not only the supernatural but also herself. Hill House, which seems “awake,” almost as if it “seemed somehow to have formed itself” is arguably a character in its own right. Jackson frequently describes the house using human characteristics
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Felicia McDonnell
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As Eleanor drives to Hill House and imagines herself living in all of these different homes and what she would do there, I can absolutely relate. I do this myself-imagining different lives.
— Sep 20, 2026 05:01PM
Felicia McDonnell
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Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again.”(Chapter 1 - Page 15)
— Sep 20, 2026 04:56PM
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed the first paragraph of the novel, the narrator states that absolute reality is not a tenable state for any sane being and that Hill House is “not sane” (1), suggesting that Hill House represents, somehow, “absolute reality.”
— Sep 20, 2026 04:56PM
Felicia McDonnell
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I wonder if Stephen King got the idea of the rocks coming into the house and windows from this book. Very similar to Carrie.
— Sep 20, 2026 04:21PM