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Magical Thinking In Merricat

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Merricat buries things around the family property for good luck and even tacks a book up on a tree as a protective charm; this shows that Merricat believes in magic. “All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.” Magical thinking is normal for children, who believe that their thoughts and desires cause the events that happen around them. But the continuation of magical thinking in an 18-year-old suggests a deranged mind. Throughout the book Merricat asks questions to her sister Constance sounding childlike,
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