Merricat begins to sense a change in the air. When the women leave, the Blackwoods laugh, as they often do, about the morbidly curious townsfolk. Wright urge Constance to leave the house now and then. Readers learn Constance was tried for the murders and acquitted.ĭuring the trial, Merricat lived in the local orphanage. He keeps track of every detail he can remember from that day, yet he often asks Constance if the whole thing even happened. Julian frequently mentions he’s working on a book about the murders.
Julian ate some of the poisoned sugar, and he’s been an invalid ever since. Julian’s wife, as well as the girls’ parents and brother, died. Wright from town visit, Uncle Julian reveals details of the horrible murders that took place in the house six years earlier. As always, she wishes and imagines them dead.Ĭonstance never leaves the house. Some chant childish rhymes about her and her sister. As always, the townspeople bully and gawk at her. She begins her narrative by describing her weekly trip into the village for supplies. Eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine (Merricat) Blackwood lives with her older sister, Constance, their ailing Uncle Julian and her faithful cat, Jonas, in their family’s large estate.
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