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We Have Always Lived in the Castle Study Guide
Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle follows Merricat and Constance Blackwood, two sisters living shut away in a grand house on the edge of a hostile village. The mood is eerie, sharp, and quietly funny, with a constant sense that ordinary things can turn unsettling. When a cousin arrives and begins to disturb their careful routine, the sisters’ fragile world starts to shift. The reader is left wondering who can be trusted, and whether “we were safe” can last.
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