Worse, the nervous condition with which Roderick was diagnosed when he returned from war seemed to be returning. The family insisted that Gyp be killed, a blow to Caroline. The child of one of the visiting families was bitten by Gyp, Caroline’s aging pet dog. The family’s situation began to deteriorate rapidly after that night. The Ayers family invited Faraday to a party to welcome new neighbors to the area. He got to know the family members as he visited regularly to perform therapy on Roderick. Noticing Roderick’s limp, the result of a war injury, Faraday arranged to treat Roderick with new electric therapy with the agreement that Roderick would serve as a test subject. He treated a young maid who told him there was something bad in the house that scared her. When he was left alone, he pried a plaster acorn out of a decorative molding on the wall so that he could have a part of the house as a keepsake.įaraday returned to the house thirty years later and was shocked by how dilapidated it had become. Faraday had been allowed to go upstairs with a parlormaid. Because his mother had worked as a nursery maid there, she snuck Faraday into the house while she helped the staff wash dishes after the party. The day before she was to leave the country, Caroline was found dead of an apparent suicide.įaraday remembered a visit to Hundreds Hall as a ten-year-old boy when he, and other boys, received commemorative medals from Mr. Engaged to Caroline, Faraday believed that they would live happily at Hundreds Hall until Caroline told him she hated the house and did not want to stay there. As the members of the family were overcome with what Faraday diagnosed as mental illness, Faraday’s obsession with the house and the remaining members of the family continued to grow even as the house became more dilapidated. Faraday was shocked when he saw the ruin of the house and its grounds but was still drawn to it as he made friends with Caroline and Roderick Ayers, and their mother.
The obsession stayed with him into his adulthood when he believed he might finally be making a name for himself among the rich families when he was called to the house to take care of a sick maid. Faraday became obsessed with Hundreds Hall, the home of the rich Ayers family, when he first saw it as a ten-year-old boy. In The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, Dr. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Waters, Sarah.
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