Here are 7 quotes from Chapter 1 that you could use to talk about the themes of unreliable narration, isolation and feminine power in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle in your VCE English and EAL Text Response essay.
We rarely moved things; the Blackwoods were never much of a family for restlessness and stirring. We dealt with the small surface transient objects, for the books and the flowers and the spoons, but underneath we had always a solid foundation of stable possessions
Blackwoods had always lived in our house, and kept their things in order; as soon as the new Blackwood wife moved in, a place was found for her belongings, and so our house was built up with layers of Blackwood property weighting it, and keeping it steady against the world.
Blackwood Road goes in a great circle around the Blackwood land and along every inch of black wood road is a wire fence built by our father.
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The people of the village have always hated us.
I always thought about rot when I came toward the row of stores; I thought about burning black painful rot that ate away from inside, hurting dreadfully. I wished it on the village.
“And you can tell your sister from me—” Dunham started to say, but I hurried, and by the time I got outside all I could hear was the laughter, the two of them and Stella.
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