While emphasizing the intensity of family’s role in shaping a person, the novel also suggests that families are connected less by biology and more by a sense of shared history and tradition. Just as the absence of her siblings Lowell and Fern continues to haunt Rosemary as a kind of presence, the history of her life with her family continues to define Rosemary’s sense of self and her perspective on the world. This shows that even if one’s interactions with family remain permanently in the past, they fundamentally shape who we are in the present. Although Rosemary has moved across the country to free herself from her family at the time the novel is set, she cannot ever truly escape them. The often troubling dynamics of family life haunt Rosemary throughout the narrative.
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