The homeownership obsession
How buying homes became a part of the American dream?and also a nightmare The story starts with a gothic mansion, all stone turrets and peaked windows, a fortress-like structure. The camera descends from a dark swirling sky to a full moon to finally frame the mansion. A male voice narrates Shirley Jackson?s famous opening lines from her 1959 gothic novel, The Haunting of Hill House: ?Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut,? he reads. We are told, from the moment we start the show, that this is a story about a house. And we are told that, while the house is sinister, it does have good bones.
As the seconds pass, we move indoors. Children sit awake in their beds, children wander the halls, and a father in respectable blue pajamas comes to comfort his crying, ghost-touched daughter. ?How long do we have to live here, Daddy"? she asks. ?Well, your mother and I have to finish fixing this house, and then someone has to buy it,? he replies. ?Then we can go"? she asks. Then, he says, they can go. The 2018 Netflix recreation of The Haunting of Hill House isn?t just a reinterpretation of Jackson?s novel; it?s also part of a long tradition of American homeownership horror stories. These stories begin with a place. The place is bad, uncanny in a Freudian sense (the Austrian psychoanalyst?s word for the uncanny was unheimlich, which literally translates to un-home-like), but the place is also beautiful. In Ros...
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