That was a very sad story. I felt bad when the three of them were living alone, ostracised almost. Then towards the end it is heart wrenching.

Although a few of their neighbours try to encourage them to mingle with other people, I feel they needed more encouragement.
I wish Mrs Clarke could have visited them more often and engaged them in some way or another!!
Children suffer the most when there are deaths in a family, particularly when they lose their parents!

I feel Merricat had some mental illness due to which she poisoned almost the whole of her family. She adored her sister Constance. But it was evident that she did not want her sister to talk, meet or see anybody. She gets chills when her sister says she would like to go to the market with her. She hates it when the neighbours talk to Constance. She also hated her cousin Charles for getting close to Constance. She buries coins and marbles. She is very happy in the end when she has Constance all to herself and says that they are living happily on the moon.

Its an easy read. The story is Merricat's perspective of all the events that happen in their life.