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- The novel concerns an eccentric family struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first-person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, who tells the story through her journal. It is a coming-of-age story in which Cassandra becomes a young woman and experiences her first love.
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I Capture the Castle begins with the family’s women—Cassandra, her elder sister Rose, and their stepmother Topaz—trying to improve their finances. Rose wants to marry a wealthy man, being largely influenced by the marriage-centered plots of Regency and Victorian English novels to expect such a thing to be possible.
The I Capture the Castle Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
- Dodie Smith
Plot. The novel takes place between April and October in a single year in the 1930s. Ten years before, widower James Mortmain took out a forty-year repairing lease on a dilapidated but beautiful castle, hoping it would inspire him and cure his writer's block.
I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries.
In I Capture the Castle we follow Cassandra Mortmain, resident of a falling apart British castle, which she inhabits with a brother (Thomas), a sister (Rose), a rather ethereal stepmother (Topaz), her writerly father and a handsome servant and orphan Stephen.
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- Dodie Smith
Study Guide for I Capture the Castle. I Capture the Castle study guide contains a biography of Dodie Smith, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
I Capture the Castle Summary & Study Guide includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis, quotes, character descriptions, themes, and more.
