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Natural Refuge

If the garden, woods, and creek offer Merricat a place where “no one could see us,” are they truly protecting the sisters, or quietly teaching them to fear every human connection—does this natural refuge represent freedom from the village, a retreat into memory, or a fragile comfort that can survive only while the outside world remains locked away?

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The garden, woods, and creek create Merricat and Constance’s natural refuge, offering privacy, beauty, and safety beyond the village’s hostility. Yet this shelter deepens their isolation: its “unfailing offers of refuge” make the outside world seem threatening while protecting a fragile dream ofper