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The Young Boy
Dolly’s Dress
Dolly’s dress symbolizes her naivety about growing up—a naivety that she loses as she transitions out of girlhood into womanhood. The physical changes her dress undergoes throughout the evening mirror the emotional transformation that…
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Dolly’s Program
Dolly’s program symbolizes the social expectations that dictate how she should act at the ball. At formal dances, programs are booklets or cards that women carry for listing dance titles and recording their dance…
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