Point of View

This story is told by Faraday, a man who has been obsessed with Hundreds Hall since he was a ten-year-old boy. Because he is so obsessed with the house and the idea that he will be the person his parents intended for him to be if he lives there, Faraday makes for a very unreliable narrator. The nature of the novel, however, calls for an unreliable narrator. The whole book is built on uncertainty. Faraday is able to make educated guesses about what might be happening at Hundreds Hall, but is not able to tell without a doubt. His scientific mind tells him there must be a reasonable explanation but his patients seem to believe they are being haunted by some sort of supernatural presence. There is evidence to both ends. Faraday is equally challenged in his job of being a reliable narrator by often...