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  • Screening: Week Eight
  • Reading: Henderson, Roth, Place
  • Discussion questions:

1) Henderson reading:

A. How does Henderson connect the film and the social milieu of the time? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

2) Roth reading:

A. What special status does Roth give to the various gender relations in the film, and what are these relationships?

B. What are the issues of miscegenation, according to Roth, that are presented in the film?

3) Place reading:

A. What is the nature of Ethan's antisocial character and what is its basis, according to Place? Do you agree?

B. How does Place compare the Debbie/Sear and Martin/Look relationships? The Martha/Aaron and Laurie/Charley relationships?

C. Why is it important that Martin, not Ethan, kill Scar?