We Have Always Lived in the Castle setting guide
The Garden is a sheltered space behind the house, linked to Constance’s care and Merricat’s sense of safety. Because “no one else ever came” there, its flowers and vegetables offer refuge, while its privacy keeps the sisters apart from the village and the world they fear.
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If the Garden is a refuge where “no one else ever came,” does it truly protect Merricat and Constance, or does its beauty help them remain cut off from ordinary life? Consider how flowers, vegetables, pathways, and the boundary between cultivated space and untamed growth might reveal what the sisters value—and what they fear changing.
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