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Does caring for a home create freedom, or can cooking, cleaning, gardening and preserving food become a way of refusing change? When Constance and Merricat “always put things back,” are they building a refuge, or carefully maintaining a prison that keeps the past alive—and what might they lose if they allowed ordinary life to change them?
Domesticity gives the Blackwood sisters order after loss: Constance’s cooking, gardening and cleaning make the house a shelter. Yet these routines preserve the past, as “stable possessions” keep safety tied to stillness and isolation.
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