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Laura is John’s partner and one of Machado’s roommates when she lives in Iowa as a student. She’s one of the few people to whom Machado talks about her abusive relationship while she’s still with the woman from the Dream House. Along with John, Laura’s presence allows Machado to relax, which emphasizes, by contrast, how unsafe Machado feels around her abusive partner.
Laura Quotes in In the Dream House
The In the Dream House quotes below are all either spoken by Laura or refer to Laura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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107. Dream House as Sci-Fi Thriller Quotes
And then you are out. You do not dream. When you wake up, the movie is over; you’ve missed the entire thing. And yet you feel so content there, in that space, in the moment after waking, and before you remember your cell phone.
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Laura Character Timeline in In the Dream House
The timeline below shows where the character Laura appears in In the Dream House. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
4. Dream House as Picaresque
...Dream House, she lived in a small, dilapidated house in Iowa City with a couple, Laura and John. They treated Machado like “a beloved sibling.” Machado calls herself a “picara” and...
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107. Dream House as Sci-Fi Thriller
...the Dream House, Machado sits down to watch a movie with her roommates John and Laura. As soon as it starts, she falls asleep, feeling safe and content. When she wakes...
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...from the Dream House that she wasn’t having sex with anyone and says John and Laura can prove that. Upon hearing this, John looks “flattened with grief.” The woman says there’s...
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115. Dream House as Mrs. Dalloway
...so she could string lights from the ceiling to prepare for a party. John and Laura find her in the living room with blood running down her legs, crying. They look...
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