Dorothy Parker's "Perfect Limousine"
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| Publication date | 04-2025 |
| Journal | ANQ |
| Volume | Issue number | 38 | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 224-229 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
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| Abstract | This article identifies the central turning point, and provides three interpretations of, Dorothy Parker’s popular poem “One Perfect Rose” (1926). These interpretations can be described as, respectively, feminist, matrimonial, and sex-positive. At the center of all three is the limousine invoked by Parker’s speaker, whose symbolic function in the text is highly ambiguous and dependent on contemporary readers’ associations with it. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2024.2312406 |
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