Experimenting Madly...right?

I chose this image to represent the cracking up theme in the novel because I liked the period it represented and that both subjects in the image are women. I feel this is a stereotypical example of how women are viewed when they "crack up."

As for my reference I chose the reference to Mayakovski early on in the novel. He was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright. He was one of the people at the head of Russian Futurism.