In spite of their isolation, the remaining Blackwoods live a contented, orderly life: Constance handles the cleaning, cooking, and gardening, Uncle Julian works to complete his endless book, while Merricat makes sure that the gates are always locked and that the magical charms that protect them are always secure. Though acquitted of the murders, Constance is the target of suspicion and hatred from the people of the nearby village. Constance has not set foot off the grounds since the night six years ago when a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the family sugar bowl, leaving Julian permanently disabled and the sisters orphaned. It tells the story of the Blackwood family, the only three remainders of which are narrator eighteen-year-old Merricat, her beautiful, agoraphobic older sister Constance, and their ailing Uncle Julian. It was Jackson's final work, published three years before her death in 1965.
We Have Always Lived In The Castle is a 1962 novel by Shirley Jackson, who is best known for her short story " The Lottery".
I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the deathcup mushroom. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise.
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