YMMV / The Haunting of Hill House

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Is Eleanor the victim of the House? Or does she suffer from mental problems? Or does she suffer from mental problems which the House deliberately exacerbates? On the one hand the other residents also see and hear unnatural things, but even before she reaches the House Eleanor is shown to have an overactive imagination.
• Les Yay:
  • Eleanor and Theodora get very close to each other very quickly, touch each other a lot, share clothes. Eleanor in particular starts to obsess of Theodora and starts fantasizing about living with her. Even irrespective of her close relationship with Nell, Theo is often read by contemporary audiences as a lesbian, given her Gender-Blender Name, subversive (for the time) presentation and lifestyle, and references to a woman from her past who is implied to have been an ex-lover.
  • The elder Crain daughter and her "companion" from the village, whom she left the house to.

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