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13. Dream House as Confession
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
Machado loves writing in the same room as the woman from the Dream House. They read each other’s writing and compliment it; Machado frequently tells the woman how funny she is.
Machado’s relationship with the woman appears to begin happily, given that they’re able to do what they love near each other in a comfortable way.
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