Stillhouse Lake Themes & Motifs

Rachel Caine
This Study Guide consists of approximately 72 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Stillhouse Lake.
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Stillhouse Lake Themes & Motifs

Rachel Caine
This Study Guide consists of approximately 72 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Stillhouse Lake.
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Displaced Trust

Gwen struggles to trust the people whom she meets on a day to day basis. This is the result of her relationship with her husband, Melvin. As hard as she tries to vet people and check their backgrounds to determine whom she should let in her life, Gwen still tends to place her trust in the wrong people and doubt those who are trustworthy. Gwen make a mistake by placing her faith in Melvin, Absalom, Sam, and Graham.

Melvin is the man who made Gwen so incapable of trusting people because he abused her naïveté by using her as a shield while he was abducting and killing women. Gwen (as Gina) believed that Melvin loved her and that they had a normal life even if their family was not as close as she would have liked. Gwen hates who she was as Gina because...

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