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110. Dream House as Stopgap Measure
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in In the Dream House, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Queer Visibility
Christianity and Shame
Abuse, Trauma, and Healing
Storytelling, Responsibility, and Freedom
Summary
Analysis
Though people predicted that 2012 would mark the end of the world, their theories of floods and viruses were inaccurate: the end of the world happened in a beautiful park on a hot day.
There’s something discordant about the idea of the apocalypse happening in good weather and in a calm setting. That discordance reflects the confusion Machado feels in her relationship—she feels at once the need to escape and the compulsion to remain with her abuser.
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