We Have Always Lived in the Castle society & value guide
In the village, wealth and status shape respect, resentment and exclusion. The Blackwoods’ “plenty of money” supports a belief in private superiority, while pride, envy and fear turn class difference into guarded boundaries, control, mistrust and conflict.
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If a family has “plenty of money,” does that wealth make its members powerful, or trap them inside pride and suspicion when the surrounding village resents their advantages and the family looks down on ordinary life, turning social difference into a wall that shapes every relationship, choice and conflict in the end?
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