We Have Always Lived in the Castle theme guide
Possession gives the Blackwoods status through “stable possessions,” but their inherited house and heirlooms isolate them from the village. As money and property draw suspicion, owning a world becomes a form of imprisonment.
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Can a house, money, and inherited objects protect a family while also imprisoning it, as the Blackwoods’ “stable possessions” carry memory, status, and control, attract suspicion and attack, and make Constance and Merricat defend their identity by refusing to imagine a life beyond the walls of We Have Always Lived in the Castle?
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