I’m bored with that, so for I’ll start here, just because it’s the first thing you wonder after you close the book, based on the last couple of pages. She is a 23-year-old now and is telling her story to a writer named Rachel Neville.


The book is really about the breakdown of a family, a scathing critique of reality TV culture, and an analysis of how desperation and greed can combine to create a horror far more terrifying than the supernatural.But that doesn’t stop me from wondering what is going on with Marjorie.Every time I think Tremblay is signaling that there is no demon and that Marjorie isn’t possessed, something happens to change my mind. This also has the side-benefit of a nice tie in between Merry and what I assume is her namesake—Merricat Blackwood from Now, it’s possible I am wrong here. Moreover, if the father were simply buying the poison to clean the cross, it’s unclear why it would be so difficult for the police to track the purchase. 20 years after her family was publicly destroyed by her teenage sister's mysterious affliction, a young woman tells the story in her own words, revealing a far more terrifying version of what really happened in her childhood home. Merry tells this story to a writer named Rachel Neville, These flashbacks are what serve as the narrative going forward in the novel, with a few chapters that show Merry and Rachel in the present. It’s possible that in Marjorie’s paranoia she also thinks her father is trying to kill them all, but I don’t buy the idea that she doesn’t know the consequences of her own actions. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Spoilers galore, by the way, so if you haven’t read the book, you might want to do that first. If I remember correctly, in the blog section of the novel, the absurdity of the questioning resulting in an exorcism is addressed directly (something about hitting you over the head with the patriarchy).
The central line in the book by my reckoning is when a now adult Merry is asked by the author writing her story how she can watch horror movies about exorcisms, given that they are more horrific than what actually happened to her. It seems the priest is just itching to do one of these, and clearly religion is vilified here and not much distinction is made between the protestors and the priest himself.

or someone else?)

The exorcism didn’t work to help her and in the process she lost whatever trust and affection she had left for her mother and father. Marjorie’s symptoms line up perfectly with that diagnosis, and the onset in early adulthood fits with the disease. However, the point of view also has another layer as Merry's story is flashbacks. There’s an implication at some point in the story that the local priest is somehow benefiting from the television show which presumably would not exist without the exorcism itself. This blog, which is written by a girl named Karen, is diving into a deconstruction of the reality TV show that Merry and her family starred in called As we follow Merry as a precocious 8-year-old, we see that her home life is strained. I also feel quite confident in saying that the answer is no. To make matters worse, Merry's sister Marjorie has been acting in an increasingly bizarre fashion, blurring the lines between schizophrenia and full-blown demonic possession. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The plot involves an American family from Massachusetts who is under strain when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Marjorie Barrett, exhibits signs of mental illness. This is only for BIG announcements like new book releases or Pulitzer prizes won. There are also a few chapters containing posts from a blog called "The Last Final Girl." If I’m right about that, then Marjorie is simply manipulating Merry into helping her murder the family she now hates while sparing the sister that she still loves. That sort of thing.

But it’s never fleshed out and I don’t find it particularly believable.

It's hard to tell whether or not Marjorie is telling the truth, and this is left to interpretation by the end of the novel. As Merry suggests, her father was intending on cleaning the pewter cross, something that potassium cyanide is quite good at. Tensions get increasingly higher, leading up to the climactic exorcism of Marjorie Barrett. As Merry tells her story to Rachel, even more secrets are revealed and the lines between fiction/non-fiction, reality and fantasy, begin to blur even further.

She’s made a decisive choice to end things. I’m bored with that, so for A Head Full of Ghosts, let’s do something different. Tremblay seems to enjoy writing about characters who struggle with mental illness and their effect on others, and I wonder if he'll continue in that sudo-ambiguous way. She chose to do this because the family was in danger of losing their home and the show's producers were paying their family a large enough amount of money for them to survive.

She replies, “What does that say about you or anyone else that my sister’s nationally televised psychotic break and descent into schizophrenia wasn’t horrific enough?”Now you may be saying—it’s just a book. This would also be the reason why Marjorie (actually, the demon) demands that Merry be present for the exorcism.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:I promise not to spam you, and I'll never give away your information.

This particularly comes to Merry's attention after her sister begins telling her strange and macabre stories instead of innocent ones based on characters from Things continue to go downhill until Merry's father, who had recently become a The show only manages to tear the family further apart and during this time Marjorie tells Merry that she has been faking her signs of demonic possession.

The story is told from the point of view of Marjorie's eight-year-old sister, Meredith "Merry" Barrett.

And while I don’t think that Merry is possessed, and it’s just as you said, a nice bit of ambiguity added, I think there are some suggestions along the way that this may be where the book would eventually go.


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