The Haunting of Hill House
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I confessed a fear that had plagued me since childhood: sleeping in a house alone.
The hypnotist told me to close my eyes.
I think he waved his hands around my head; there was a puff of air.
When I opened my eyes, he looked satisfied.
You should feel better now, he said.
But thats not how youre going to die.
Do I really believe this guy looked at me and saw my fate?
Like Luke, shes frustrated that no one has ever taken her problems seriously or offered concrete help.
Reader, she marries him becoming Eleanor Vance, just like her namesake in the novel.
Now it becomes clear that Hill House is somewhere in Massachusetts hence that milk bottle.
(So why does Shirley still live so close to it?)
In the novel, the house itself is a kind of mother,welcoming stray childreninto its evil embrace.
(Everything so soft.
Is it Olivia who will be infected by whatever is in the house and turn against her children?
We still have no idea.
Whatever it is, its not a carcass, as the doctor suggests.)
Beneath it all, though, the show repeatedly suggests that were our own greatest danger.
(Sure, it doesnt help that her doctor gives her some really bad advice.)
Though there are some inconsistencies doesnt Nell see a lot more apparitions than the final images show us?
When its impossible to say what happened first, cause and effect become completely jumbled.
For both characters, their insistence on rationality gets them in trouble.
But why cant the psychiatrist see that Nell is off her meds?
Maybe in season two the Crain siblings will sue him for malpractice.
Someone had to say it, but it makes no sense that its her.
Im unclear on what the story is with the locket.
If Olivia has five children, why does it only contain pictures of Nell and Luke?
We do see her leave her fathers pocket watch on the dashboard of her car.
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