#swan song ending is really just the hill house ending when you think abt it
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Tricia Lootens, "Whose Hand Was I Holding?": Family and Sexual Politics in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
#has anyone read hill house...anyone wanna have a shirley jackson spiral with me....#thinking on how sam and nell are characters cut from the same cloth#makes sense then. that i feel as insane about sam as i do about nell lmao#'sacrificing [themselves] for the sake of belonging'#the way eleanor's hopes for finding belonging get whittled away as the novel progresses#sam's hopes for finding belonging and meaning outside of his family get whittled away as the show progresses#escapes their family home -> in their desperation for belonging -> end up getting swallowed by a haunted family home#in sam's case it's a literal return to his original haunted family home embodied in a person (dean)#overlaps with my analysis notes on dean as sam's ghost/dean as the narrative's central haunting#swan song ending is really just the hill house ending when you think abt it#nell gets to go out in a blink of a crash. sam gets slowly digested over the course of 15 years#sam outsider studies#lit recs#j.txt
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