#eleanor vance

[real-niceys]

Finished this shirt !!!!!

[lambsneck]

together we can make this Hill House a Hill Home.

[hangsawoman]

90% of doomed women stop just before the house will eat them. KEEP BANGING ON THOSE DOORS

[longstoryshort-143]

this fanfic thing is easy

[girltomripley]

I'LL BE HOME SOON ; Backrooms x The Haunting of Hill House

Backrooms (2026) dir. Kane Parsons ; Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life ; The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick ; The Haunting (1963) dir. Robert Wise ; The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ; The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson by Zoë Heller

[themonstrousother-moved]

One of the most tragic things about the book that both the show and movie go against, is that after Eleanor’s death, all the other characters continue on with their lives with no mention of her. It feels like a callback to the scene where Eleanor believes Theo and Luke are following and talking about her only to find out they’re not. Dr Montague publishes his book and it fails. Theo returns to her partner and they reconcile. Her sister cares more about the car than she does about Eleanor. Eleanor desperately wanted to be loved and to belong and to have an impact on other lives but when she is unable to have it in life, she seeks for it in death. Yet the novel ends as it begins; whatever walks there walks alone. There is no beauty or satisfaction in her death; it does not allow her belonging or companionship and she does not impact Hill House or its former inhabitants in any meaningful way.

[k1llingeve]

Eleanor Vance // The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

[marzipanandminutiae]

If I think about it, I find the choice to give Eleanor long hair usually worn up in a bun or a twist very interesting in the 1963 haunting of Hill House movie adaptation

While a long hair had always remained a feature of historical fiction, the 1960s were just beginning to come out of a time when it was considered extremely juvenile and not really stylish or appropriate for adult women. Especially in the early 1960s, the idea of women having long hair much past age 20 was more counterculture than mainstream (although that would change as the decade passed and moved into the 1970s). I remember my grandmother, who was born in 1926, chiding my mother and older sister for continuing to wear their hair long well into adulthood

It almost feels like it's both situating her firmly in the past and the realm of what had come to be considered frumpy, grandmotherly styles- contrasted with Theo's hair, which is long enough to be put up but clearly about shoulder length and fashionably layered when it's down -and suggesting an immaturity and innocence to her despite the fact that she's 32 years old

Particularly in the scenes where she's in her nightgown. It evokes the classic Gothic heroine look, but also has a certain vaguely Victorian air, and probably would have read as inappropriately "fairytale princess" for an adult woman to audiences at the time