Idealization and Dissappointed
The speaker in "The Blue Dress", by Sharon Olds, idealizies her father but is soon disappointed
when she realizes her father is much different from what she picture. The girl is led to believe that a blue dress given to on her birthday was from her father. Later on she realizes that she was mistaken and that her father in all actually did not give her the blue dress. Instead of letting go of the facade her father had created she embraced it as an actual reality:
-when I went away to boarding school of I wore it all the time there, loving the feel of it, just casually mentioning sometimes it was a gift from my father, wanting in those days to appear to have something whether it was true or a lie I didn't care, just to have something. (194).
Even though her father had not actually sent her the dress she believed the lie was more beautiful than the truth. When it comes to life sometimes it takes convinceing one's self that a lie is......

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Title: Sharon Olds The Blue Dress
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