Her insecurities are quickly discovered through her thoughts along the drive; Insecurities that the reader would expect to be there due to her childish view of ordinary things. She reveals that she had no real life growing up because she spent it taking care of her mother. This is foreshadowing the fact that she will have no real life after Hill House either. Large imagination, childish fantasy and no hopes for the future are exactly the type of personality a haunted house could affect easily. The supernatural works through the mind to drive out insanity. It is much easier to breakdown someone of Eleanor's type, with a mind already a little on the crazy side and no stable background to hold on to. Stephen King said "Ghosts are just buried secrets," and it becomes apparent that Eleanor has plenty of buried secrets. She reveals to us her guilt about her mother's death and her hard feelings toward her mother. This is a ghost that haunts Eleanor already, before she even reaches Hill House. .
There is a part in the story where Eleanor stops for lunch and sees the little girl who refuses to drink her milk without her cup of stars (21-22). Eleanor understands and relates to the girl, silently hoping she holds out for her cup of stars. Like the girl, Eleanor cannot have her cup of stars. Eleanor has never had her own way, (her cup of stars), and this is important to the reader because by the end of the book she finely gets her own way. She does not want to leave Hill House and despite what the others want her to do, she gets her way. She mentally tells the girl to hold out for her cups of stars, just like she holds out for Hill House in the end. It is ironic that her death at Hill House would be the first time Eleanor ever had her "cup of stars." .
Another thing we learn about Eleanor on her drive is her strong sense of attachment. Just about everything she encounters she falls in love with, i.
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Hill House Paper In the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, the characters Luke Sanderson, Dr. ... The first reason that Hill House is not haunted is because the character Eleanor Vance is insecure, and, therefore, unreliable in evaluating the real reasons Hill House is or is not haunted. ... (pg. 119) Hill House's cold spot, Dr. ... Montague's wife asked her husband "about a nun" (pg. 188) in Hill House. ... These examples show that Hill House and Borely Rectory are too much alike and it seems that Hill House is just a copycat of Borley Rectory. ...
My eyes then gravitated towards the top of the hill, where the lower part of the sky has a high value and the higher part has more of a lower value. Immediately after I was focused on the buildings in the background, mainly the large house in the distance. ... The contrast of the grasses emphasize the incline of the hill and the distance between the woman and the house on the horizon. ... The colors red, orange, and yellow on the hill are complementary to the blues, grays, and greens seen in the sky and buildings, giving a feel of distance and gives dimension. ... She seems to want to reach t...
The narrator, a young boy, has all through his life been fascinated with whaling and has read a lot about it; he knows about the geography of the Artic and remembers the haunting routine by heart. ... This finds expression when the Whaler describes a distant hill to the boy as a woman's tit: "I didn't see for I was innocent of all trivial things. ... Before returning home after the encounter with the Whaler the boy glances towards his teacher's house. ...
In 1909, Mrs.Burnett drew her inspiration of the design of the story about the secret garden from the garden of her own house that she was adorning in Long Island, NY. ... From the archaic furnishings of the house to the dismal moor, from the exuberant plants in the garden to the serene vally, all add to the haunting sense of the mystery and beauty of country life which infuses the book. ... More precisely, it falls into the category of the so-called Enchanted realism (Sheila A.Egoff, 1988) or the World between (Ruth Hill Viguers, 1959), which is rooted in reality but touches the gloomy and dr...
Wuthering Heights is a rather isolated home situated on the top of a hill, belonging to the Earnshaws - Mr and Mrs Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley and Heathcliff - a "gypsy brat" described as "as dark almost as if it came from the devil" whom Mr Earnshaw found and brought back from his trip to Liverpool. ... Mr Lockwood describes Wuthering Heights as " atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather ..one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house ..as if craving alms of the sun". .....
She then went on to write The Road Through the Wall, The Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, The Bird's Nest, Raising Demons, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle between 1948 and 1962 (About Jackson 2). ... Tessie Hutchinson is a house wife, raises children, takes care of home, and accepts her role in society up to a point (Conflicts 1). ...
Nevertheless he rides to Callendar's house, but his tire goes flat and he is forced to take a tonga. When he reaches the house, Callendar is out, and has not left a message; and two English ladies take his tonga, stranding him. ... Before they go, Professor Godbole sings a haunting song, but Ronny walks off in the middle of it. ... Before Fielding can leave, Aziz crossly calls him back into the house, where he shows him a picture of his wife--a great confidence. ... In a certain light, seen from the city, the Marabar Hills look romantic; and seeing them in such a light from the veranda...
In 1837 she became a governess at a girls" school at Law Hill. ... The story of Wuthering Heights takes place in 1801, where Thrushcross Grange the owner of the house takes on a new tenant, Mr. ... There are no hauntings or spirits that walk the earth, none the less are damned or doomed or bound by a curse or demand. ...