He turned to heroin and created a world of his own. Earlier in the episode, Luke’s father put the top hat on Luke’s head and said, patronizingly, “Big boys know the difference between what’s real and what’s imaginary.” But Luke never did learn the difference between real and imaginary, because the imaginary (aka ghosts) are real to him. Obviously, there’s symbolism in this image. The ghost retrieves a top hat in from Luke’s room and puts it on his head (who knows - perhaps the hat had once been the ghost’s). How does Luke’s credibility problem tie back to his particular haunting, a tall man in a top-hat? The ghost, who floats a few inches above the ground and uses a cane to push his body forward, first appears in an exquisite, near silent sequence at Hill House.
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