Previous
Dr. Sosa
Cages and Cells
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is concerned with the relationship between humans and animals (and the ways in which humans abuse that relationship), and thus cages and cells play a central role. Rosemary and…
read analysis of Cages and Cells
Lab Rats
At several points in the novel Rosemary refers to laboratory rats in an abstract sense, discussing their use in scientific experiments, and their symbolic importance then becomes more concrete when Lowell is allowed to keep…
read analysis of Lab Rats
Madame Defarge
Madame Defarge is a ventriloquist’s dummy that Rosemary and Harlow find inside the suitcase Rosemary is mistakenly given after the airline loses her own. At first, Rosemary is reluctant about taking out Madame Defarge, both…
read analysis of Madame Defarge
