On the way home, the Harris boys chant a rhyme at her about Constance poisoning her with a cup of tea. Joe Dunham comes in, too, and Merricat has to endure their sly insults until Stella tells her to go home. Jim Donell follows her inside to pester her, insisting he’s heard that she and her sister are moving away, which Merricat denies. On her way home, Merricat goes into Stella’s café to show that she isn’t afraid.
When she enters the grocery store, everyone goes silent until the owners have helped her and she leaves. Merricat hates the villagers in return and often wishes them dead. The Blackwoods’ land is closed off from the outside world with a fence, and the villagers have always hated the Blackwood family.
It’s Merricat’s job to go into town for groceries, but she doesn’t like having to face the villagers, who are hostile towards her. She then begins her story some time earlier, on the day she brought home the library books that still sit on her shelf, long overdue. The narrator, Mary Katherine Blackwood (known as Merricat) introduces herself and reveals that all of her relatives are dead, except for her sister Constance.
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