Lavan House

Lavan House is the Lavan family’s vacation home in Chasland. Before Beatrice ever even sees the house, she feels threatened by it. The narrator says, “A new fashionable home called Meryton Highway—locals called it Money Road, for all the lavish homes dotted between beachside Bendleton and the port town that handled a third of all the shipping for Chasland… It was certainly more impressive than Riverstone Cottage, the Clayborns’ home in the north country” (67). Even the location of Lavan House exudes wealth and prosperity. When Beatrice finally sees the house for herself, the narrator says, “Even from this beech-lined difference distance, the sheer size and symmetry of this modern country house stunned her. Red bricked, black-roofed, perfectly balanced—doors and windows meant for convenience and light that disregarded the additional tax expense calculated each year—it was the finest house Beatrice had ever seen outside...