5/22/2023 0 Comments The dressmaker by rosalie ham![]() ![]() Tilly’s diligently remodels the house and cares for Molly, and Molly becomes much calmer and healthier. The townspeople ignore and ostracize Molly because she is unwell, and Molly’s house has fallen into disrepair. When Tilly arrives, Molly is extremely sick. Tilly returns to Dungatar to stay with her mother, Molly, who is mentally ill. ![]() Love and friendship have the power to transform people in the novel. However, while Tilly’s dresses transform some characters on the surface, many of these transformations are only temporary illusions that do not reveal, but instead disguise, those characters’ true natures. Through these contrasting examples, Ham suggests that changing one’s appearance isn’t enough to create genuine transformation real change can only come from meaningful human connections. Her fashionable creations cause a stir in Dungatar, and her caring presence causes genuine positive change across the community. ![]() These transformations begin when Tilly Dunnage, a young woman who left the town as a child after she was wrongly accused of murdering a classmate, returns and sets up a dressmaking business. The residents of Dungatar undergo a variety of transformations throughout the story. Rosalie Ham’s novel The Dressmaker is set in Dungatar, a remote Australian town, in the 1950s. ![]()
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