Fictional Fans

Ooooh,I'm really intrigued by the general concept of "strangers stranded in a house together" really kicking off as a trope with the invention of the automobile, maybe as a plausible next step for Victorian gothic house party tropes (like the person above was talking about) except the characters don't know each other. I can see it being plausible, at least, and it seems like a really interesting entanglement between technology, culture, and literary tropes.