Hangsaman is a 1951 gothic novel by American author Shirley Jackson. The second of Jackson's published novels, Hangsaman is a bildungsroman centering on lonely college freshman Natalie Waite, who descends into madness after enrolling in a liberal arts college.

Aug 8, 2013 · Jackson’s Wikipedia entry suggests that she based Hangsaman on a locally notorious missing-persons case, a Bennington student who disappeared into the dark woods …

Mar 31, 2021 · This analysis of Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson's chilling and thought-provoking 1951 novel, is excerpted from Girls in Bloom by Francis Booth.

Jun 25, 2013 · Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore in 1946. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

"Natalie Waite who was seventeen years old but who felt that she had been truly conscious only since she was about fifteen lived in an odd corner of a world of sound and sight, past the daily voices of her father and mother and their incomprehensible actions."

Oct 18, 2018 · Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore in 1946. Hangsaman was Jackson’s second novel, after The Road through the Wall, which was published in 1948.

Jul 12, 2013 · Hangsaman is a crash and burn example of free indirect discourse—or what might be better called infected narration— which combines direct discourse (a character’s direct speech) and indirect discourse, such as a narrator’s commentary.

Her complex relationships with her family and peers shape a vivid yet unsettling coming-of-age story. Natalie Waite is a seventeen-year-old girl feeling trapped in her upper-middle-class life. She lives with her egotistical father, Arnold, a writer struggling with his own demons.

Aug 28, 2017 · Hangsaman is the dark and unsettling tale of a young woman named Natalie Waite as she sets off into the world of college. This brief synopsis is from the 2013 reissue …

Oct 18, 2018 · Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson, $16, Amazon or Indiebound. Set at a liberal arts college not unlike Bennington, Hangsaman tells the story of seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite, a girl...