Last week, I finished We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson. We Have Always Lived In The Castle is about a girl named Merricat Blackwood, her older sister Constance, and her Uncle Julian. Six years before, when Merricat was twelve, she poisoned her entire family except Constance with arsenic, killing them all except Uncle Julian, who did not react to the arsenic for an unknown reason. Constance was framed for the murders, and there was a lot of evidence to lead one to think she did commit them. The entire town hates the Blackwoods, and they are incredibly cruel to them.
There is a great possibility that Merricat could be mentally ill. She behaves like she is five, when she is really eighteen. She will follow Constance around like a lost puppy, and interrupt her with "I love you"s every chance she gets. She seems to believe she is actually from the moon. "On the moon, we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down upon a dead dried world. On the moon we wore feathers in our hair and rubies on our hands." She hates strangers, and often thinks about murdering them in her head, the same way she killed her entire family.
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