I imagined the house as part of a levittown street. Perfect on the outside but horribly dysfunctional and corrupt on the inside. "Karen spent every night of her fourteenth year composing that smile in front of a blue plastic handled mirror" (58). I can't imaging a has-been model living anywhere that doesn't aesthetically fit in with it's surroundings.
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As to your second question on Dr. Lennon's blog: I think it was the direct intent of the author to make it a labyrinth. You're always twisting and turning and moving with this book so I'd say it's definately a fair guess to say that it's to make it a labyrinth.
Yeah that is how I pictured the house as being. A quiet country home that looks peacefully quaint and you have the family from the Texas Chainsaw Masacre running around in that bad boy tearing things up from the inside.
Very, Very nice reference.......I never thought about it like that but I probably always think of Ash Tree Lane like this from now on....
Good point it totally goes against my picture but I can understand! I see your idea of the house is the before to mine. A nice house goes bad! Due to the fact that I spend my nights looking at shows like spongebob and power rangers I see the house physically changing with the people!
The image really goes with the concept of the beginning of the story, great imagination.
Suburbia is effectively a very long stretch of "unique" houses that are all quiet and antiquated in their own way. It seems like the perfect horror movie for a suburban materialist, though:
"Oh no...the house's measurements aren't perfect! What are we going to do?! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
AHHH SUBURBIA HELL!!! I think this could be the house Karen grows up on but not the secluded home that Navidson is looking for and thinks he found on Ash Tree Lane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q89Ip66BqOA
It reminds me of an old-fashioned Wisteria Lane (Desperate Housewives), and that's the thought I had in my mind as I read the book. I knew I loved you before I met you.
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