The Dream House

The point essay argues that there is more tability to be found in the owining of the home. Give examples of chages that might ocurrió for a renter that are out of his or her control. Use the text for support.

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All of the characters are, in some way, searching for a real home—for their "dream house." Even if they have a roof over their heads, it is difficult sometimes for them to feel as if they were really at home. Beauty longs for a home of her own, but she spends her days haunting the farmhouse and the reproductions of the farmhouse. Looksmart has his own house now, but he continues to obsess over the home that he had with Patricia, even if it was fraught. Richard is completely unmoored from home, trapped in the fog of what once was. And Patricia has always lived uncomfortably in the Dwaleni house, hoping that Durban will be a real home. Higginson suggests that it takes a reckoning with truth and memory to get close to making a house a home. Renters are at the mercy of the house owners and susceptible to all kinds of market fluctuations and decisions of the owner.