Leading Questions:
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Intertexts:
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T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock": "In the room, the ladies come and go, talking of Michaelangelos."
Polly, not belonging to the artsy group,
"people talking and laughing, ligh a ping pong game."
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the mermaid's song--
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natural, beautiful, not heard by Prufrock
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in between two worlds
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Individual and Social Institutions:
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Polly: organizationally impaired; incompetent
in
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typing, eating manners, feminine pose, party
and presenting her gift;
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expressions -- admire the curator and her
language
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Polly's photography: a bricoleur
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Polly's fantasies -- make up for her incompetence
and express her desire
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Gabrielle:
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Her dress and earrings, language ('whimsical
sociological references,' 'half life, half lived,' 'trite made flesh'),
style, her negotiating skills
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Her inner discontent; her work was once rejected
by 'an adult class'
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Her secret love
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Artistic Creation and Relativism:
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Experience of being rejected shared by both
Gabrielle and Polly (both regarded as simplistic)
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G's standard: "trite made flesh"
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the photos on G's wall vs. Polly's
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Polly's speech on Freud; Mary's speech to
Polly; Polly's defense of G
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Sexual Orientation:
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Polly's speech on Freud's polymorphous perversity;
Polly's name
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the name of Mary Joseph
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The differences between film camera and
video camera, and the ending
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