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Finished this last night, and despite picturing Julie Harris as Eleanor throughout the reading, I still can see how Jackson has written the character skillfully as a troubled young woman who in fact was exactly what Harris portrayed. I had … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In a previous post I complained about Jackson’s somewhat inappropriate use of adverbs.  Here’s another… After coming into her bedroom and finding it streaked with blood, Theodora opens her wardrobe and finds her clothes covered with stains and ruined as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After learning to understand Faulker’s Benjy in The Sound and the Fury, Jackson’s Eleanor is a piece of cake.  Thinking quickly over the evening before, she could remember only that she had–must have–seemed foolishly, childishly contented, almost happy; had the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While there’s a lot to learn from Jackson’s writing style, there are a few peccadillos, it seems, and they do bother me. An overuse of adverbs:  "I know," Elinor said tiredly.  He snickered disagreeably.  Anyway, she thought obscurely, it’s my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s how Jackson gives us Elinor, one of the main characters on her way driving up to meet the others at Hill House: On the main road of one village she passed a vast house, pillared and walled, with shutters … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just a page or two into this, but I’ve learned to try and post thoughts as quickly as possible (except in the case of Barthes, whose words I spend days disentangling to roll into some kind of ball that I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Figured that something like Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would put me in the right frame of mind for facing the monsters of Silent Hill again.  It’s been a while since I dealt with anything scary–aside from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →