How does Hill create a sense of isolation in the novel

How does Hill create a sense of isolation in the novel

1. Eel Marsh house is isolated in the marsh

   • "It was an ugly, satanic-looking thing, like some species of sea-vulture."
   • At the end of the Nine Live Causeway
   • "the most astonishing situated house I had ever seen or could ever conceivably have imagined, isolated, uncompromising but also, I thought, handsome

2. Young Arthur has no family in Crythin Gifford and no one will reveal anything to him about Eel Marsh House,

3. The novel is written in first person - this shows him being more alone than if it was written in third person

4. Even when Arthur is an old man, he still lives in an isolated area

   • "there is an air of remoteness and isolation which makes us feel ourselves to be much further from civilization."
   • "We are but two miles from a good-sized village, seven from the principal market town"