How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
For a minute [Eleanor] could not remember who they were (had they been guests of hers in the house of the stone lions? Dining at her long table in the candlelight? Had she met them at the inn, over the tumbling stream? Had one of them come riding down a green hill, banners flying? Had one of them run beside her in the darkness? and then she remembered, and they fell into place where they belong) […]. (9.18)
Eleanor loses her identity as part of a surrogate family and gives herself wholly to Hill House. This quote complicates the link between "The Home" and "Family." Here, the home seems at odds with the family, requiring Eleanor to forsake them for it. Never an easy answer with this book. Never.