We Have Always Lived in the Castle setting guide
Blackwood House is a grand, guarded home at the village’s edge, surrounded by gardens, woods, and a creek. Its “stern, unwelcoming face” protects the sisters, yet its locked gates and hidden back rooms also make safety feel like isolation.
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If Blackwood House is meant to be a refuge, why does it need locked gates, boards, barricades, and rooms turned away from the village? Does its careful order truly protect the sisters, or does it preserve their fear by keeping change outside? When Merricat insists that “we were safe,” should we trust the house—or question what safety has cost?
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