1. What do we learn about women's experience in the Depression from Capra's Meet John Doe?

2.. What do we learn from Le Sueur's stories and/or Capra's film about the phenomenon of woman-blaming in the Great Depression?

3. In "Hollywood's Washington: Film Images of National Politics During the Great Depression," Levine discusses how Americans' concerns about fascism were reflected in popular film. How is the American fear of fascism evident in Capra's Meet John Doe?

4. Levine discusses the implausibility of the ending of Meet John Doe. What does he say about this? What does Capra's chosen ending for the film suggest about the future of American democratic politics?