Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not b
een found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough. I do not accept the answer that there is no problem because American women have luxuries that women in other times and lands never dreamed of; part of the strange newness of the problem is that it cannot be understood in terms of the age-old material problems of man: poverty, sickness, hunger, cold. The women who suffer this problem have a hunger that food cannot fill. Based on Friedan’s word choice, which best describes the tone of the excerpt? hostile pleasant passionate accusatory
