Gothic Settings in Cat's Eye
From the spooky non-native hometown that Toronto becomes for Elaine to places that are imbued with natural evilness, uncanny feelings and strange occurrences, here is a list of the Gothic locations in Cat's Eye.
- Elaine's family's house in Toronto, with its earth-smells and mud-mound mountains for a yard. Eventually it begins to take shape as a home
- the basement of Simpson's department store, haunted by her memories of young Cordelia
- the cellar of the Smeath house where the girls play school
- the Zoology department of her father's university with its various smells of formaldahyde and caged animals for experiments
- the Conversant where her family goes for a field trip
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Catholic church in town and connected school. Elaine notes it only in passing, yet somehow it grips her imagination. She ends up using the name as a title for a later painting
- the ravine near Elaine's house where a girl's body is found when she and Cordelia are young women
- Jon's apartment/bachelor pad, haunted with Elaine's old memories of their relationship