(you can pick whatever Two you want to answer from the list below)I attached the storyRead "The Yellow Wallpaper" and select two items below: The story was first published as a "gothic" horror story in 1892 after being rejected several times by various editors. One editor said it was "too terribly good to print." Why do you think people would have been reluctant to publish/ read it? Since the story portrays, very vividly, a break with reality, what do you think Gilman was trying to convey? Do a little searching and you should find "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper" online. Summarize it. Trace the breakdown of the narrator's grip on reality: what goes first? what symptoms does she experience? What senses (smell, sight, etc.) Examine the color symbolism in the story: why yellow paper? WHO is the woman trapped behind the paper?? Does she experience any kind of a "victory"? Is it important that the narrator's husband is a doctor? Why or why not? Do a little searching and see what you can find on the popular Doctor S.Wier Mitchell (he's mentioned in the story) and his (in)famous "rest cure." What is this story REALLY about? (depression, gender arrangements?) (There is a great biography of CPG by Ann Lane published in the late 90s.)

2 discussions I have suggested that we should engage and be engaged by those persons who see and understand the world differently from those who sit comfortably within a dominant we society so that we might (re)imagine or discover a new place for democratic politics. And as film-goers who find ourselves more susceptible emotionally to the stimuli presented in a movie theatre, we can at times experience vicariously, yet deeply, the events, the stories, the lives of those who are different from ourselves. As individuals living in a multicultural and diverse society we should consider opening ourselves up to and welcoming such engagement and the possibilities for personal transformation in our individual sensibilities. Such a transformation might occur when one considers and compares the experiences of his or her life and the impact of those experiences on his or her identity next to those raw materials that make-up or construct the identity(ies) of those who are different from them, specifically those who have been marginalized, disregarded, and silenced by a dominant we society. I have suggested that when one truly sees Other, sees and hears the stories of difference crafted and told by the Other in film, one might come to respect the different voices and stories of those lives and thus allow him or herself to see and experience life from a new position, a transformed sensibility, where politics transcend convention. In other words, when we consider our lives next to those who are different from us, when we frame those different human stories next to our own personal human narrative we may come to understand how a particular human uncertainty and vulnerability informs all of our lives. In 300-500 words share whether or not you believe film has the potential to transform one’s political sensibilities. And if you believe that your personal sensibilities have been (re)shaped or transformed by a particular film, say so. The objective here is to share your thoughts pertaining to the major thesis presented in Democracy and Difference.