Ute's House

For Peggy, Ute’s house is her childhood home and the hub of civilization. When James takes Peggy to die Hütte, he removes her from Ute’s house, effectively estranging her from civilization for the next nine years. When Peggy returns to Ute’s house after her time in die Hütte, she has trouble adjusting, thinking that her old bedroom “belonged to a different person” and she would only stay there “until [she] could return from the forest” (231). Only once Peggy realizes she is pregnant and accepts her past does she feel at home in Ute’s house, demonstrated when she takes a bath in her old bathroom.

The Cemetery

Before Peggy and James depart for die Hütte, they live in the garden next to the cemetery, and Peggy reports “the garden became [their] home and the cemetery [their] garden” (39). By calling the graveyard...