Perhaps the most ratifying evidence for Dana’s transformation is when she actually slits her wrists in order to either commit suicide or return home (Butler 239). She is not entirely sure that attempting to take her life will bring her back to 1976, but she feels that it is worth risking instead of surviving and enduring another moment in the past. The reader can eliminate Dana’s intention to survive by observing that she is conforming to the patterns and behaviors of this society to a degree that she herself cannot live with. Her mentality is affected so much up to this point that she has essentially had enough of losing herself in this environment and would be more content if she were dead.
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