Through escape from the protagonists’ families, the characters consciously select their parental figures allowing them to obtain their freedom. Jackson uses one-way journeys to convey the characters’ agency to self-create one’s identity thus leading to their serenity in accepting a perceived home.

Finally, the mobility of the characters reflects their individuality. They also exhibit the self-consciousness to recognize the apocalyptic nature of their lives. In Jackson’s works, the protagonists escape from their families which enables them to obtain greater freedom. After a physical and emotional journey, the characters cannot back out of their decision to transform, and this change leaves them with the sole option of adapting to their new surroundings, both in body and in mind. Eleanor shares similar desires to Angela Motorman from Jackson’s Come Along with Me and Lois Taylor from “ Louisa, Please Come Home,” whose objectives and visualization of achieving those objectives come from a need to gain complete control over one’s life by self-definition. She does not know how she wants to change, but she knows that a transformation is inevitable when she travels to Hill House. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House presents a woman, Eleanor Vance, who is attempts to transform her own identity. The Agency to Self-Create in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House,Ĭome Along with Me, and “Louisa, Please Come Home” The journeys she imagined for her protagonists inspire me to create my own. I came away with greater insight into the life of the esteemed and truly modern author. I began by searching for a clear link between the three stories.

I wrote this essay after a semester of reading and analyzing the work of Shirley Jackson. I have loved my time studying film and exploring my interests at Dawson which has led me to pursue Political Science in university next year. I am in the Cinema and Communications profile in the ALC program. O元171081W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.85 Pages 266 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140250379 Urn:lcp:comealongwithmep00jack:epub:f6b295da-c22a-4ff5-b9c4-e2d2b7c2d38f Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier comealongwithmep00jack Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9c54w45w Isbn 0670231584 Lccn 68022864 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL5614696M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:03:29 Boxid IA160701 Boxid_2 BWB220141002 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 2.

Come along with me by shirley jackson