We Have Always Lived in the Castle vs. When the Moon Hits Your Eye

A Harmonious Echo

Both 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' and 'When the Moon Hits Your Eye' reveal a profound, almost unsettling fascination with how individuals construct and maintain realities, whether through meticulously crafted isolation as Merricat Blackwood does, or through the rigidly defined personas and often chaotic relationships depicted by Scalzi. You appreciate how both authors, through vastly different narrative methods, explore the human capacity for self-deception and the desperate clinging to personal truths, hinting at a shared interest in the psychology of enclosed systems and the narratives we tell ourselves to survive.