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Is her position different in the end of the text than it would have been if she had married Charles Blackwood and rejoined the structures and strictures of organized society?

Female Power in We Have Always Lived in the Castle The most central relationship in Shirley Jackson’s novel “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” is between the sisters Constance and Merricat Blackwood. In her article “The Establishment and Preservation of Female Power in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Lynette Carpenter […]