Insane or Haunted

At the end of the novel, The Haunting of Hill House, the protaganist, who is Eleanor, is some what protrayed as being haunted, but how the author puts together the dialoge, she makes Eleanor say things that do not exactly make sense, so then it seems that Eleanor is not haunted, but just insane. In the novel, Eleanor is killed when her car is suddenly out of control and runs into a tree, the reader is ment to believe that it was a suicide, but is uncertain because of the reader does not know the ground, the reason, or the purpose of her apparent suicide. But when Eleanor uses the interrogative - "Why am i doing this? Why am i doing this? "- which implies that her unknowing may mean that there are more than one consciousness. The reader will never know if she was possesed by another or if it really was her own consciousness that made her turn the wheel and run into the tree. Shirley's novel draws upon the history of unresovled social, cutlral, and pyschological tensions that fuel the debates over the 19th century.



http://www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%20Society/e-journal/Volume-2/Castricano-2006.pdf