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Short Summary: The Dress By Julia Darling

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The Dress by Julia Darling
”The Dress” is a short story about an impairing relationship between two sisters, Flora and Ra-chel, written by Julia Darling in 2006. The text tells a story about how the two sisters’ relationship breaks, which unfortunately happens on their mother’s fortieth birthday. This happens because of Flora who stole and ruined Rachel’s dress. In the following I will account for the impairing rela-tionship by characterizing the mother, explaining the relationship between Flora and Rachel, fur-thermore I will also account for the structure, the symbolism and the theme in the text.

The mother of Flora and Rachel turns 40 the day the story takes place. In the beginning of the text, the reader gets the impression that the mother …show more content…

Starting with the dress that is stolen by Flora which symbolizes their relationship. It’s the fact that Flora ruined the dress which causes Rachel to leave. Otherwise the dress could be a symbol of the mother’s attention. When Flora steals the dress from Rachel, which may symbol Flora stealing the mother’s attention from Rachel. This turned out to be a very bad decision and Flora ends up with her getting kicked out “”I want you to leave!” sobbed the mother. “Don’t worry. I’m going,” said Flora” Furthermore the dress that has been ruined was green. Green is a symbol of family, harmony and peace, which no longer is a part of the family. At the restaurant Rachel wears a black dress and red earrings, which could symbol-ize her agitation. The black colored dress symbolizes Rachel’s anger and the red earrings symbol-izes her aggression against her sister.
The theme in this text is neglecting. This is especially seen when Flora is desperately screaming for attention, and the mother isn’t able to give her daughters the attention they need. This is be-cause her career takes up very much of her time so she just wants to be loved when she gets home. This is also why she isn’t able to solve the conflict between her children, and she’s the one whom have the responsibility for them since she’s the only

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