Shirley Jackson’s The Road Through the Wall (1948) depicts a seemingly orderly California suburb whose social harmony relies on marginalization, compliance, monitoring, and deliberately preserved appearances. This paper claims that Jackson’s Pepper Street is not only a setting but a psychological system in which social hypocrisy generates and strengthens anxiety. With the help of close reading of the novel’s treatment of Harriet Merriam, Marilyn Perlman, Tod Donald, the Roberts family, the wall and the road, and the deaths of Caroline Desmond and Tod, the study analyzes how rumor, social hierarchy, ethnic discrimination, gender norms, and social judgment restrain personal identity. Karen Horney’s idea of fundamental anxiety offers a psycho-social terminology for awareness of the community members' uncontrollable attempts to acquire safety through acceptance, control, or withdrawal, while Simone de Beauvoir’s account of females as the communally formed others highlights the gender-based elements of compliance. The paper argues that Jackson’s suburban truthfulness becomes a form of psychological and social gothic in which the common frameworks of society create remarkable distress.