Brigid Rooney describes the husband and wife of I'm Dying Laughing as "fallen angels" in her essay "Crossing the Rubicon: Abjection and Revolution in Christina Stead's I'm Dying Laughing." This is a pdf file.
She writes:
Her fictional character incorporates the laughing apocalypse, representing even as she displaces not only the despair and horror of the postwar years, but also, it would seem, the difficulty for a generation of committed Marxists of reconciling with their beliefs the mounting evidence of Soviet atrocities.
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