Gold Ring
In Surfacing, the gold ring that the female narrator wears represents her unreliability as a narrator due to the psychological difficulties that being a woman in a misogynistic, conservative society causes. The narrator first…
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Random Samples
In Surfacing, Random Samples—the experimental documentary film that the narrator’s married friend David and her lover Joe are making—represents how art can reinforce existing social hierarchies like male oppression of women and…
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