The Dress

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The Dress

Sometimes a dress is not just a dress, and sometimes it is all that is needed to take a family over the edge. The short-story "The Dress" by Julia Darling takes on the task to try and explain the complex structure of a family with an emotional build-up like a pressure-cooker that at some point has to let off steam.

When girls borrow each others' things it is usually not a big deal - take my hat, want to try my new lipstick, here's my new shoes - but nobody likes it when their things get taken from them, get stolen, when you are forced to unwillingly let other people use your stuff, because you cannot stop them, and especially when the thief is someone you by nature consider your biggest rival - your sister. In the short-story the teenage girl Rachel experiences this type of feeling, this frustration of not being able to do anything and not being able to unleash her feelings on the person responsible - her sister Flora, who has stolen her beautiful new dress, who daringly and unapologetic has taken a possession though very well knowing that it is strictly