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Harriet complies and is left completely alone. Caroline Desmond, a delightful three-year-old, is beloved by the entire neighborhood. One evening at a neighborhood party, Caroline goes missing. The neighbors organize to find her, only to discover she has been bludgeoned to death.
- Shirley Jackson
- 1948
7 ago 2013 · Through an exploration of a fictional suburb in 'The Road Through the Wall', Jackson lends a critical and unnerving eye to post-war suburbia, and defrocks one of the most romanticised eras (especially in visual culture) in American history.
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- 1948
- Shirley Jackson
- Hardcover
- Introducing Harriet Merriam
- Trouble with Mother
- Making Amends
- Real-Life and Literary Friends
- A Bond with Marilyn
- More About The Road Through The Wall
As in several of Jackson’s stories and novels, we do indeed see the world – and in this case Pepper Street is its own world – largely through children and their mothers; Jackson didn’t – possibly couldn’t – ever write a sympathetic male character. Fourteen-year-old Harriet lives in a middle-class suburb in California – not completely unlike the one...
Her mother confides to a friend that she worries about Harriet, “about her being so heavy, I mean. It’s very hard on a girl.” Harriet does not join in with the other children playing “baseball or tag or hide-and-seek, actually because she was fat and the other children made fun of her, ostensibly because her mother had forbidden her to play.’ She t...
Harriet’s mother soon comes down and “Harriet felt at last like crying. She loved her mother again, as one should love a mother, tenderly and affectionately. She put her arm around her mother and kissed her. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said.” Her mother says to Harriet: “We’ll spend more time together from now on. Reading, and sewing. Would you like to learn ...
Harriet’s friend Virginia very nearly leads her into serious trouble when she takes Harriet with her to the apartment of a Chinese man she has met on the street. Harriet has been nervous of doing anything her mother would not approve of and wants to go the long way home so they will not run into him but Virginia tells her, “if you’re going to be sc...
Harriet’s mother would presumably be apoplectic if Harriet were to read Vanity Fair. Marilyn tells Harriet about the girls she does not like, including Virginia. “She’s not much,” says Harriet and in “a final recognition ofher bond with Marilyn,” she says, “I know something about her.” Marilyn is from the only Jewish family in the neighborhood. Har...
25 giu 2013 · Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded...
Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career.
- Paperback
Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece.
The Road Through the Wall is a 1948 novel by author Shirley Jackson. It draws upon Jackson's own experiences growing up in Burlingame, California.
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