"...the story oscillates between the sterility and impersonal experience of a housing sale vs. the hallucinatory experience of witnessing the intimacy or privacy of a quarrel...purchasing a house entails a future that someone can project or look forward to. But at the same time, this house embodies another kind of reality that's based on memory...I couldn't help but think about how the promise of a future can be tarnished by its past...for better or for worse, the love of prospective dwellers can overwrite the potential to haunt, and this overwriting can either be an act of erasure...or amelioration." 

"...the ending also reminds me of "Beauty and the Beast." It feels like Sophia bestows a challenge: love sincerely or face the consequences of a haunting. The house almost becomes the spell of The Enchanted Rose (the rose would bloom until the prince turns 21, and if he could learn to love another and earn love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken)." - Shelli Weiler