Discuss how Eleanor Antin’s The Banquet from The Last Days of Pompeii can be viewed as an allegory of contemporary American life

Please provide the best answer for the statement.

1. Antin’s grand feast symbolizes the excesses of our time (e.g., American obesity rates).
2. The diners have little interest in the drama taking place to the side (the gladiator poised to kill), connecting to modern apathy (e.g., voter numbers).
3. The woman in the wheelchair represents the crippling effects of power and excess.