Rosemary's Baby

“I don’t see why the Bramford is any more of a ‘danger zone’ than any other house in the city. You can flip a coin and get five heads in a row; that doesn’t mean that the coin is any different from any other coin.”

This quote reveals Rosemary’s philosophical approach not only to Hutch’s concerns about the Bramford specifically but also to life in general: She is an optimist who does not believe in violent plots or conspiracies.

“On Friday evening the apartment was theirs: an emptiness of high ceilings and unfamiliar dark into which they came with a lamp and a shopping bag, striking echoes from the farthest rooms.”

In this passage, words like “unfamiliar,” “dark,” and “echoes” highlight the Gothic characteristics of the Bramford.

“She thought of going to the library and reading the story in old newspapers like Hutch had done; but that would have made it more real, more dreadful than it already was.”

In this metanarrative moment, Rosemary decides to let Hutch’s story about the dead infant found in the Bramford basement stay fictional rather than become real.