Psychological Analysis Of Chilling To The Bone, By Shirley Jackson

Introduction

Psychological approach to literary analysis aims at understanding the behavior and actions of the characters by studying their psyche and its relation to the author of the text. Psychological analysis assists in developing a general method of predicting actions and understanding why actions and events happened the way it did based on the study of psyche of both characters and authors. Every literary work is the product of the author’s psyche, their active imagination and thoughts. Studying any piece of literature on a psychological level reveals just as much about the author as psychoanalyzing of authors might lead to new revelations about their work.
Analyzing Shirley Jackson’s works will give a reader a very astute idea of

Chilling to the bone, it has a macabre way of delivering its message. 1 City people who belong in cities and take refuge in small towns in places with nice weather and small population during the summer are outsiders to the people in these places. They come for their own selfish needs, used to their comfortable and easy life style with their money and new technologies. And then they leave when their needs are fulfilled. But from the other perspective, the people in these towns also welcome and then exploit these people for their own needs. Every summer, they open their towns and earn money thanks to the outsiders, the summer people. They provide them with the comforts they are used to having in the cities and their various businesses flourish around that time. They tolerate the outer presence till they have to and it isn’t done out of any goodness in their

and Mrs. Allison with two kids who are married and settled in other cities retire to their own summer cottage on hill miles away from the nearest town. They have been doing so for years now and every year they become a little more reluctant to leave the peace of their cottage by the lake. With old age and children that are busy taking care of their own family, the quietness and separation from the tiring city life provided by a cottage surrounded by the greens and blues of the nature is too alluring.
With years of experience with the town nearby and the town’s people, the old couple feel at home now and they feel like they belong with everyone being welcoming. Every year they follow the same routine and see the same