A Turning Point

At this point in the novel, the house becomes more and more haunted. Strange events occur at the home. My favorite part of the whole novel was after dinner when Theodora suggested that it was a perfect time for a ghost story. Dr. Montague begins to tell the story of Hill House. He tells the guests that the house has numerous scandals of suicide, madness and lawsuit. However, Theodora, Eleanor and Luke ask what is so haunted about the house? Montague replies, "I will not put a name to what has no name. I don't know." It is my favorite part because Shirley Jackson sets the mood of the entire chapter with an eerie kind of darkness to it.