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I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.

Whenever she is uncomfortable or upset, Merricat imagines living on the moon. There, everything is as she would like it to be, but above all what appeals to her is the sheer isolation of it. In Chapter 1, for instance, she thinks about living on the moon while Jim Donell and Joe Dunham taunt her in Stella’s coffee shop, and later in the chapter she thinks again of the moon while trying to ignore the Harris boys and their rhyme about Constance offering her a poisoned cup of tea. To Merricat, the moon represents isolation and therefore safety; there are no people there to judge and mock her and gossip about her, and she has everything she needs, affording her a chance to be self-reliant.

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