ENG 208 Lecture 7: Discussion of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Chapters 3-6)
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The haunting of hill house by shirley jackson, chapters 3-6. Follow the theme of community throughout the novel: good night, all (jackson 91) Speaks to the united nature of the group. Part of being a human being is needing one another: red paint (154) Red is a motif throughout the novel. Eleanor begins to wear this color upon entering hill house. She is not trying to become a new person, but rather become her own person, the person she already is but was not allowed to become: our like (62) They are united in imagining, united in their differences. They have a shared sense of humanity: complete and separate (83) Eleanor is finally her own person, and exploring what that might mean. She can only do this because she has found a place in which she believes she belongs: there"s only one of me, and it"s all i"ve got.
