We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

Through the eyes of the misanthropic narrator, Merricat, the reader is immediately drawn into a world where nothing seems quite right. Merricat makes her way past cruel and taunting neighbours, all the while dropping a trail of crumbs which inform us little by little of a family tragedy which lies several years in the past and alludes to the possible circumstances which brought about the tragedy. The narrator also gives us snippets of her remaining family members, of her lo...