After watching movies like Inception and Shutter Island, our
culture have been trained to assume that many events are not real, and they do
take place inside of our head. This is the same with Eleanor. When we read her
perspective of the stories, we can assume that this entire novel takes place
inside of her head. Out of the four characters, we are only hearing about one
person’s internal perspective, and that is Eleanor, therefore we assume that Eleanor
is the main protagonist. So now that we understand Eleanor is the main protagonist, the next thing we
wonder is whether the events is a cause of the supernatural, or are these
events in her head. The main event that causes much dissonance would be when
Theo’s clothes get covered in red paint/ blood. This conflicts with one of the
final scene when we find out that Theo exclaims herself that her clothes is
fine. If this event is only happening in Eleanor’s head, then there are two possibilities. Basically, Theo’s clothes were cover in Red,
and that the residents of the house are facing possible realms of the
supernatural, or Eleanor is mentally disturbed. We may even say that Eleanor
could of possibly imagined that all of the events at the end as well, but this
would be supported with limited evidence. Technically, every event that was supernatural may of been caused by another person. Luke could of written on the wall, Theo could of painted her clothes, Mrs Montague may of made every single thing up.
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