Though tried, she was eventually acquitted. Constance was accused of committing the murders. Merricat’s parents John and Ellen, her aunt Dorothy (Julian’s wife), and her younger brother Thomas died. The rest of the family, however, consumed the dessert. Constance doesn’t take sugar, so she didn’t eat any while Merricat had been sent to her room early without supper as punishment. The sugar was poisoned with arsenic, and it was used to sweeten the blackberries for dessert. What he knows is that the poisoning itself happened six years earlier while the family was having dessert. Uncle Julian, who is obsessed with the murders at Blackwood manor, relitigates them at every turn while getting no closer to an answer.
Constance takes care of Merricat and Uncle Julian, who survived the poisoning but uses a wheelchair ever since. The other Blackwoods were murdered after ingesting arsenic-laced sugar. Charles represents the Blackwood masculinity against which Merricat and Constance rebel by entirely disregarding the value of money or social status.Blackwood Manor is a large family estate that houses a peculiar trio: 18-year-old Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood, the protagonist her older sister Constance and Uncle Julian. It certainly becomes clear that he cares about little other than money, making him into a sort of living copy of the sisters’ dead father, John Blackwood. Though nothing is said explicitly, it is implied that he hopes to marry Constance and get access to the money that her father has left in the safe in his study. Charles allies himself entirely with Constance and begins to turn her against Merricat. He also becomes irritated with Uncle Julian’s physical illness and delusions, making an enemy of the sharp-tongued old man. He refuses to put up with Merricat’s eccentricities as Constance does, and he wants to punish her. He initially tries to befriend her, but quickly turns hostile, essentially threatening to steal Constance from her. Though Constance welcomes him, Merricat sees him as a stranger and an intruder and works tirelessly to get rid of him. Charles turns up at the house saying that he wants to help the sisters.
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