Mary Katherine Blackwood

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Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.

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Merricat Blackwood 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
ageInStory teenager
alsoKnownAs Merricat NERFINISHED
appearsIn We Have Always Lived in the Castle NERFINISHED
countryOfFictionalResidence United States NERFINISHED
createdBy Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED
familyName Blackwood NERFINISHED
familyRelation Blackwood parents are her deceased parents
Constance Blackwood is her older sister NERFINISHED
Julian Blackwood is her uncle
fears the outside world
villagers
firstPublicationOfWork 1962
fullName Mary Katherine Blackwood NERFINISHED
gender female
givenName Mary Katherine NERFINISHED
languageOfWork English
literaryGenreContext gothic fiction
livesWith Constance Blackwood NERFINISHED
Julian Blackwood NERFINISHED
medium novel
narrativeCharacteristic unreliable narrator
narrativePerson first-person
narrativePerspectiveOnWorld hostile and paranoid view of society
notableAction buries and hides protective objects as charms
fantasizes about living on the moon
participated in the poisoning of her family
notableTrait strong attachment to the Blackwood estate
obsession death
poison
protecting her home
personalityTrait cheerful
childlike
mistrustful of outsiders
reclusive
superstitious
unsettling
vengeful
protectiveAttitudeToward Constance Blackwood NERFINISHED
relationshipWithCommunity ostracized by villagers
residence Blackwood family house NERFINISHED
role narrator
settingOfLife a small New England village
symbolicRole embodiment of isolation
embodiment of otherness

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle mainCharacter Mary Katherine Blackwood
We Have Always Lived in the Castle mainCharacter Mary Katherine Blackwood
this entity surface form: Merricat Blackwood
We Have Always Lived in the Castle narrator Mary Katherine Blackwood
We Have Always Lived in the Castle protagonist Mary Katherine Blackwood
this entity surface form: Merricat Blackwood