The Haunting Of Hill House: 9 Questions We Desperately Need Answers To
8. Theo Knew What Would Happen, So Why Didn’t She Say Anything?
Whilst exiting Hill House during that night, Hugh gets all of his children out rather quickly. As he grabs Theo’s arm, she shrieks “Let go! Don’t touch me!” and it’s because she saw everything that would happen to her family in the future – all the death, horror and heartache.
Some people believe that Theo could’ve prevented certain things from happening, but she never said anything about it – why? Was she confused about what she saw? Did she not want to talk about it? Did she block it out for being too traumatic?
Theo was only a child when this happened, but she went onto become a child psychologist and will have come to understand things such as repressed memories. As an adult, does she remember what she saw that night?