Flowers In The Attic Plot Line

The family is forced to move in with corinne s wealthy parents from whom she is estranged.

Flowers in the attic plot line.

Taking place two generations prior to the events of. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. 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. In 1957 the dollanganger family lives an idyllic life in gladstone pennsylvania until mr.

Dollanganger dies in a car accident leaving his wife corinne deep in debt with four children and no professional skills. 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. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. The newest title beneath the attic gallery books out now is an origin story that tells the twisted history of the dollanganger clan.

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. When chris dies in a traffic accident corrine insists on moving the family from pennsylvania to virginia to live with her splendidly wealthy parents.