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Dixie Belle My Dreams Are Gone With The Wind
| The Awful Truth | Double or single edged blade | | | 4/22/2013 |

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"The Awful truth" much like the show cased song Dixie Belle's "My Dreams are Gone With the Wind" depending on what point of view one uses when looking at it there can be a either positive or negative connotation but yet contains a constant that draw together and binds both artistic pieces. Thus, creating a form of simile between the two, the song however itself can be use to represent the movie do the fact the Lucy performance showcases to use what we truly need to understand, and perfectly highlight what the "Awful Truth" is. Lucy's performance of Dixie Belle's song "My Dreams are Gone With the Wind" is taken very differently, depending on which
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The dance and song are present as sensually and possess a sexually tone to them, this is the one consent throughout all the view points and is what ties Lucy's plan together. As Cavell says " Her solution is to create her identity so that the very thing that repels the proper Vances is what attracts Jerry..." (Cavell, PH, 251) In other words by performing a dance and song that had that sensually and sexually tone has negative connotation to the Vances who know Lucy has Jerry sister it may even take on incestuous tone. Where as to Jerry who view Lucy as a partner it seen in positive light as she giving herself solely to Jerry or as said by Cavell “...Lucy is declaring herself, to Jerry alone of course, as the woman he strays from the house to …show more content…
All the while the movie still keeps the character features and personality the same thus the double edge sword that makes "The Awful Truth" so engaging is born. In the film Lucy demonstrates several admirable qualities; she is creative, witty and determined. These characteristics are showcased rather quit well in her performance of Dixie Belle's song "My Dreams are Gone With the Wind". Here she use both her wit and creative, all while being fueled by her determination to rather quit successful push the Vances away from Jerry while drawing him to her. She fact throughout the movie in constantly trying to in some way draw Jerry into her life or be a part of his, this can be seen in the fact that the Vances know her has Jerry's

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