One (as a number) (allegory)
One is an allegory of wholeness. The more time Liza spends with Annie, the more she agrees with a story composed by Plato. This story is about how “ true lovers are really two halves of the same person .” According to the legend, people “ wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect ” . The thing she especially likes about the story is that “ the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman ” . Liza comes to the conclusion that she and Annie “ can be almost like one ”, for only when they are together they feel real.
A unicorn (symbol)
A unicorn is a symbol of the naiveté and purity of the girls’ love. Although they are told that their feelings “ wrong and bad and sinful ”, only they know that love they have is genuine and rare. Unfortunately for the girls, their love is as real as a unicorn for other people . There are some who don’t even want to listen to their explanations, accusing them of being lustful
Acceptance (motif)
Unlike Annie, who has been aware of her sexual orientation since she could remember, Liza “ had never consciously thought about being gay ”. The more she thinks about it, the more she understands that if she were “t hat might pull together not only what had been happening between me and Annie all along and how I felt about her, but also a lot of things in my life before I had known her ”. It proves that it is equally difficult to accept one's own sexual orientation and learn not to listen to others.
