We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the CastleShirley JacksonPenguin Orange Collection
Characters in We Have Always Lived in the Castle
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Merricat Blackwood
Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, the eighteen-year-old narrator who protects her sister and their isolated home through private rituals and superstition.
Supporting characters
Constance Blackwood
Merricat's gentle, agoraphobic older sister, acquitted of the family poisoning six years earlier.
Uncle Julian
The Blackwoods' ailing uncle, obsessed with recounting the night of the poisoning.
Mary Katherine Blackwood
Julian Blackwood
Helen Clarke
Jim Donell