What Does The Merricat Symbolize In We Always Lived In A Castle

In “We Always Lived in a Castle” by Jackson, Merricat uses symbols to drive away evil people to protect Constance. When cousin Charles goes to the Blackwood house, Merricat finds ways to make him leave, such as putting the stick on the dresser in the room he is staying in. In “We Always Lived in a Castle” Jackson uses imagery that you can not control everything, this is demonstrated when Merricat tries to make cousin Charles leave the house by putting sticks on the dresser. Throughout this story, many symbols show us how important some items are to Merricat. Many of these items are buried to protect the house from bad people. When Cousin Charles comes to the Blackwood house, Merricat goes to the room he is staying in and places foliage on the

This shows us that the sticks she places on the dresser mean something to her: “[Merricat] put my glass and metal and wood and sticks and leaves into the empty places. [She] could not put the things which had been [their] father's into [Merricat’s] room, so [she] carried them softly up the stairs to the attic where everything else of theirs was kept. [She] poured a pitcher of water onto [their] father's bed; Charles could not sleep there again.”(Jackson 87) This shows that Merricat thinks the symbols she uses will protect Constance. Jackson uses symbols such as sticks to show that Merricat believes in supernatural things. Jackson also uses only symbols to show us that you control everything because my book nailed to a tree in the pine woods had fallen. I decided that the nail had rusted away and the book -- it was a little notebook of our father's, where he used to record the names of people who owed him money, and people who ought, he thought, to do favors for him -- was useless now as protection”. In this segment, Merricat believes the book will save her from evil. When the book falls, it symbolises how Merricat wants to control something using it. Throughout this story, we see many