As some have previously stated, I was also very disappointed in "Pretty Monsters." I expected some frightening aspects, but this was silly uncanny fiction. "The Specialist's Hat" felt to me as if it were a dream. Things were very random and moods changed constantly, as they do in dreams. Nothing was explained in depth and the excerpts of poetry, which I assume were from Mr. Rash, only made things worse. I thought from the beginning the twins were dead, but towards the end I felt as though they were just interacting with the spirits that were haunting the house until they actually died at the very, very end. There was also a lot of mention of snakes in the story, and snakes tend to mean evil. Perhaps their father had met a lady with "lips like snakes" and gotten bitted. He was being possessed by evil. Is the specialist always a father? Was the specialist the babysitter's father, Mr. Rash?
What do you guys think? Was the hat made by a buffalo bill type of serial killer and the devil himself came to collect the father who made it? Is the specialist the epitome of evil? Who is the specialist? Are the girls dead all along? Is the hat a continuing project created by many people who kill? Did the twins' father kill their mother and incorporate her into the hat? Did the "woman in the woods" kill the father and incorporate him in the hat? Who was the caretaker? What is his point in the story? Is he the specialist?
This left me with so many questions, which wasn't what I wanted. I love stories that leave you hanging and let you draw your own conclusions, but this just had too many questions that I had to answer. Because of all of those questions I felt it really hard to connect to the text at all.
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