Leading Questions:

• Intertexts: 
  1. 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."
  2. the mermaid's song--
     • natural, beautiful, not heard by Prufrock
     • in between two worlds
• Individual and Social Institutions:
  1. Polly: organizationally impaired; incompetent in 
     • typing, eating manners, feminine pose, party and presenting her gift; 
     • expressions -- admire the curator and her language
     • Polly's photography: a bricoleur
     • Polly's fantasies -- make up for her incompetence and express her desire
  2. Gabrielle: 
     • Her dress and earrings, language  ('whimsical sociological references,' 'half life, half lived,' 'trite made flesh'), style, her negotiating skills
     • Her inner discontent; her work was once rejected by 'an adult class' 
     • Her secret love
• Artistic Creation and Relativism:
  1. Experience of being rejected shared by both Gabrielle and Polly (both regarded as simplistic)
  2. G's standard: "trite made flesh" 
  3. the photos on G's wall vs. Polly's
  4. Polly's speech on Freud; Mary's speech to Polly; Polly's defense of G
      
• Sexual Orientation:
  1. Polly's speech on Freud's polymorphous perversity; Polly's name
  2. the name of Mary Joseph
• The differences between film camera and video camera, and the ending