For Tuesday, 11/21, you must read Part I (up to page 60) of In the Dream House and then complete the post assignment below.

For this post, please select one of the “Dream House as…” entries included in pages 1-60 and analyze it. This should be an entry that seems significant, strange, provocative, problematic, or otherwise interesting to you in some way. 

This passage, for example, might:

• Provide a rather striking and/or telling portrait of Machado (both Machado as our present-day narrator and Machado’s past self [“you”] about which she writes).
• Provide a rich description of a particular setting or character.
• Offer a telling portrait of or interesting set of facts about the perils of queer domestic abuse.
• Offer a striking image or set of images (In other words, are there any places where you feel the language of the memoir allows you to see vividly a particular thing, place, character, or something else?).
• Relate to any one of the themes we have discussed thus far: happiness, loss, mourning, melancholia, and more.
• Do something else you find interesting and worthy of discussion!

Please compose approximately two paragraphs of analysis, with each paragraph containing at least six to seven sentences. In your analysis, I want you to explore your chosen entry, explicating what exactly about this entry seems to be so significant.

Submit your response below as a comment by Tuesday, 11/21 @ 5 p.m.