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28. Dream House as Road Trip to Everywhere
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
When Machado and the woman from the Dream House stop at a friend’s house in Boston, the woman makes Machado cry and the friend, having heard this, treats the woman coldly from then on.
Machado’s friends seem to react to the woman’s cruelty more strongly than Machado herself does, which suggests that Machado might have become used to the woman treating her harshly—or that she doesn’t think it’s necessary to defend herself.
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