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Smith's 'Joy' in Rosner's Discussion of Eating in 'Olive Garden'

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I already write the essay but the instructor says I need write one more page, can you following the essay that I give to you to add one more page. I need at least 2 quotes. And the attachment is the essay that I give to you.
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Zadie Smith, Joy
Helen Rosner, Christ in the Garden of Endless Breadsticks
In ‘Joy, Smith invites us to rethink the experience of ‘pleasure’ and ‘joy’ and argues that the experience of joy is central to the human experience. In the first paper, I would like you to put Smith’s theory of joy to work, determining whether it can help us understand the appeal of ‘The Olive Garden’ as discussed by Rosner.
To what extent can we use Smith's understanding of 'joy' and 'pleasure' to rethink the 'agonies and ecstasies' of the Olive Garden? How might Rosner’s view of the Olive Garden help refine or complicate Smith’s understanding of joy?
Additional questions you might want to consider:
Are there moments of ‘joy’ in Rosner’s discussion of eating at The Olive Garden? In what way do they conform to ‘joy’? In what way are they different? How could this be related to Gaugin’s painting?
For Smith, joy has a complicated process. Is there something similar at the Olive Garden?
Is the experience of eating food always simply a pleasure?
Does Rosner offer a more positive version of what Smith calls ‘joy’? A more negative one?
Smith often refers to pleasure as a release from anxiety. What is the role of anxiety in both essays?

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The Olive Garden
The idea of eating has always evoked the feeling of pleasure and joy in everyone’s hearts. Eating has not only mean sustenance but also a lot of things such as camaraderie, peace, and even love in certain situations. Upon a closer look at Rosner’s work, it could be implied that the pleasure of eating is also somehow tied up with one’s identity. In her comment about the Olive Garden, she said that the restaurant was “constructed from the foundations to the faux finished rafters to create a sense of connection, of vague familiarity, to bring to mind some half lost memory of old-world simplicity and ease” (Rosner). This simply shows that the ‘familiarity’ that she prefers in her works, also relates to how she relates herself to her cultural identity.
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