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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
The woman from the Dream House stops answering Machado’s calls or responding to her texts. She breaks up with Machado, saying she still wants to be friends. Machado feels like she’s shrinking to a miniscule size, drowning in her tears.
Machado’s self-worth is tied up in how the woman from the Dream House regards her—a connection that proves, once and for all, to be unsustainable.
Themes
