It is evident that this woman is part of the higher social class for many reasons. In the background there seems to be a guy just standing there and he looks like a servant. There is also someone who plays an instrument for her. Luxurious items such as a hookah, a bed, and a backyard garden surround this woman, indicating the lush life she lives in the East. With all these luxurious aspects of the painting, the painting itself also looks quite sumptuous. However, Denny describes a situation in which a professor at an American university was giving a lecture on this particular topic, including this painting as an example and saying that this painting "was projected onto the screen, a number of Middle Easterners in the audience made a sharp shout leaving the room” (270). I read this I was quite surprised because I didn't think a group of people would actually leave the room. However, the action of leaving clearly shows what kind of audience they were for made these paintings. These were not for the Islamic world, but were rather fantasies of such a foreign place. This case is a great example of exotic orientalism because it confirms Denny's statements about how it is what a Westerner saw when he thought of the East. .It also shows that Easterners don't agree because that wasn't their world