Being cast out
The following text describes artwork "Sleeping man hanging man wallpaper" by Robert Gober which can be viewed here.
1. Does "what troubles the sleep of middle America" mean "what awakens the middle class Americans from the sleep of ignorance"?
2. Does "being cast out" mean "being rejected socially" or "being deported from America"?
3. Does "as" here mean "because of"?
Text:
The wallpaper’s repeated image of a lynching in conjunction with a white man lying in bed, taken from an eiderdown box, is intended to probe the question of what troubles the sleep of middle America, reminding us of the bodies that have been and are still being cast out as being different, other, abject.
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catttt 1. Does "what troubles the sleep of middle America" mean "what awakens the middle class Americans from the sleep of ignorance"? That might be the deeper meaning, but all it says is a metaphor, "troubles the sleep", meaning more like "causes feelings of guilt".
- catttt 1.
- Does "what troubles the sleep of middle America" mean "what awakens the middle class Americans from the sleep of ignorance"?
- That might be the deeper meaning, but all it says is a metaphor, "troubles the sleep", meaning more like "causes feelings of guilt".
- We say that we "sleep like a baby" when our conscience is clear.
- " when we think someone is evil.
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catttt1. Does "what troubles the sleep of middle America" mean "what awakens the middle class Americans from the sleep of ignorance"?
That might be the deeper meaning, but all it says is a metaphor, "troubles the sleep", meaning more like "causes feelings of guilt". We say that we "sleep like a baby" when our conscience is clear. We ask "How do you sleep at
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