Flowers In The Attic Full Summary

Part 1 prologue chapter 8.

Flowers in the attic full summary. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v. Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. After the death of her husband a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge decrepit old mansion. However the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic visited only by the grandmother and their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health and more concerned about herself and the inheritance she plans to win back from her dying father to the point of murder.

Chapter summaries analyses. Flowers in the attic character analysis. Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary. It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014.

Cathy dollanganger lives a charmed life with her father chris her mother corrine her elder brother christopher and her younger twin siblings cory and carrie. The book was extremely po. When chris dies in a traffic accident corrine insists on moving the family from pennsylvania to virginia to live with her splendidly wealthy parents. Parts 1 2 chapters 9 17.

Flowers in the attic is a dark gothic tale of greed and incest that will keep readers spellbound until the final paragraph. Part 2 chapter 18 epilogue. The dollanganger family lives in pennsylvania where their father often travels on business for the public relations firm for which he works. Flowers in the attic weaves the twisted story of the dollanganger kids who after the unexpected death of their father are asked by their mother corrine to stay hidden in the attic of their wealthy grandparents mansion so she can reclaim the family fortune.