Manual Night Messages: What Really Happened to Aunt Shirley

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Aunt. Shirley. asked. “Yeah, I've been ready for a long time. I'm so excited,” I answered. I didn't even sleep too much the night before because I was so excited. apartment for a while, but right before we left it to head down the coast, she asked, “Do you feel like listening to your messages since were here?” “No, not really.
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Elizabeth's sessions with the doctor literally open a Pandora's Box, and lets out all the other personalities trapped inside. We learn that Elizabeth is actually a heiress of sorts, her mother's death is somewhat mysterious and has seriously traumatised the girl her dissociated personality perhaps originated with that incident , and that there is an unsavoury character called "Robin" in her mother's murky past.

From there, however, as is the usual case with Jackson's novels, things start moving into the realm of the seriously weird. All thought to structure and linear progression is forgotten, and the story becomes kaleidoscopic in its style.

There is a resolution of sorts, but ultimately it's not conclusive - perhaps the author intended it to be so. Even though Jackson's narrative power and metaphoric strength the hole in the museum wall near Elizabeth's table reaching up to its foundations is an extremely powerful one are on display, the story ultimately did not satisfy.

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The shifts in narrative, though done with the purpose of providing the reader with a feel for Elizabeth's fractured personality, became too jarring after a while. Doctor Victor Wright comes across as a pompous ass: no doubt this is the author's intention, but I fear that she was too successful. After a while, it became a pain to read his ramblings. How did Elizabeth's mother die? What was her role in it? What was the relation between Aunt Morgen and Elizabeth's father?

What happened between Robin and Elizabeth? Not providing a resolution may be intentional, I feel - to disturb the reader, to impress upon him that in life there are no neat closures. But it left me too disturbed!

One suggestion - if you are new to Shirley Jackson's work, don't start with this. View 1 comment. I love Shirley Jackson's stories, but she terrifies me in the same type of manner that Robert Stack as host of Unsolved Mysteries still does to this day. In this novel, we have twenty three year old Elizabeth Richmond, a quiet librarian who lives with her aunt. Nothing really exciting, right? Soon Elizabeth is referred to a specialist and the case becomes clear that she has multiple personalities.

What ensues is multiple viewpoints from Elizabeth and her personalities as well as her doctor and aunt. The result is a story that is highly compelling but VERY unsettling. Except for Robert Stack - of course! View all 4 comments. If Jackson was influenced by the story of Eve, she was a fast writer. See Bri's comment in message 1 for Jackson's source of information.

The renderings are empathetic, and Jackson is in full control. Morgen has also not gotten over "her" man marrying her sister. It arrives as the perfect breath of fresh air. A story about a girl with multiple personalities seemed like something that could tick all my dark boxes. I was literally ready to dive into a pool of madness and paranoia and ended up bumping my head on the bottom of a shallow and murky pond instead.

No, this was really bad. I mean, Shirley Jackson could write and the writing was not the problem here. The story actually started really well and I believed I was in for a treat. But after the first section it all became a messy spiral indeed, but downwards into the deepest well where all the bad books hopefully are going to end up. To me this reads like a draft of what could have been a great book. Perhaps Jackson herself had multiple personalities as well and it was the bad storyteller in her writing this one.

Smith, Shirley Coleen (Mum Shirl) (1921–1998)

It was driving me nuts and I even had some visions. Visions of a desert of boredom. Stay away from this. Or watch it if you never did. I made it. I wrote this review without using words like crazy or insane. View all 20 comments. Strange and wonderful, Shirley Jackson does the odd and peculiar so well, like you are in a world completely alien to all others and where things that would be strange to you or I are normal to these characters. Although I found it a bit tough during the middle, the beginning and end gripped me and I was fascinated to see how Jackson writes about 4 separate characters in one body a bit like 'The Three Faces of Eve.

This must surely be one of her cleverest books ever, I was amazed she could Strange and wonderful, Shirley Jackson does the odd and peculiar so well, like you are in a world completely alien to all others and where things that would be strange to you or I are normal to these characters.

This must surely be one of her cleverest books ever, I was amazed she could continue the sharpness of her writing right until the end. The main character, Elizabeth Richmond, is a withdrawn and isolated young woman who acts much younger than her actual age. When we meet her, she lives with her Aunt Morgen and working in the clerical department of a museum. She hardly seems to be noticed at work and, at home, Aunt Morgen uses her mostly as a sounding board.

Gradually, though, we come to realise that Elizabeth is not as simple as her calm and content demeanour suggests. Sudden outbursts, odd behaviour and terrible headaches, lead Aunt Morgen to take her to a doctor. What results is the realisation that Elizabeth has multiple personalities. This novel is told from the point of view of Elizabeth, her various personas, her aunt and Doctor Victor Wright. The book was not quite as compelling as Hill House or Castle, but that would be unlikely, as both are classics of their genre.

For what they had for information and treatment at the time this novel was written I'm beyond impressed. Several things in this felt like things only a person with DID would know. I'd love to know Shirley Jacksons sources on this story. Review to come. Wright with the help of Miss R's Aunt Morgan to effect a cure, to integrate these splintered selves into a complete whole. Part of the reason lies with the character of Dr. On the other hand, the section where Betsy runs away to New York in search of her dead mother is a tour-de-force; Jackson works her usual dark magic at bringing this disintegrated personality to disturbingly authentic life.

Aug 14, Shaun rated it really liked it Shelves: read-in , shirley-jackson. In The Bird's Nest , Shirley Jackson once again taps into the complicated psyche of her characters and ultimately her readers with the story of Elizabeth Richmond, a young women suffering from multiple personalities. This once popular 4. This once popular book was even made into a movie titled "Lizzie" , only to be out-budgeted and overshadowed by "The Three Faces of Eve," a film based on the case study of a real patient named Chris Costner Sizemore which was released at around the same time.

This also explains why the characters of Dr. Wright and Aunt Morgen are almost as, if not more, complex and interesting than the main character. Bottom line: a solid read with engaging characters and superb writing. A favorite excerpt: Elizabeth Richmond had a corner of an office on the third floor; it was the section of the museum closest, as it were, to the surface, that section where correspondence with the large world outside was carried on freely, where least shelter was offered to cringing scholarly souls. At Elizabeth's desk on the highest floor of the building, in the most western corner of the office, she sat daily answering letters offering the museum collections of pressed flowers, or sold old sea-chests brought back from Cathay.

It is not proven that Elizabeth's personal equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time. View 2 comments.

I was amazed at what Jackson got right about DID. The first and third parts of the story were my favorites.