Read the excerpt from chapter 17 of The Awakening. [Mrs. Pontellier] was somewhat familiar with such scenes. They had often made
her very unhappy. On a few previous occasions she had been completely deprived of any desire to finish her dinner. Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook. Once she went to her room and studied the cookbook during an entire evening, finally writing out a menu for the week, which left her harassed with a feeling that, after all, she had accomplished no good that was worth the name. The excerpt best demonstrates which emerging theme? a.Women can feel a great deal of pressure to conform to society’s expectations of female duties.
b.Women who have the assistance of a cook are still responsible for the outcome of the food preparations.
c.Women can only be happy if they perceive themselves as successful at fulfilling their domestic duties.
d.Women who are expected to perform specific domestic duties should have access to reliable resources.
Women of the late 1800 had very few opportunitiezs of becoming successfulm or independent from any other activity that was not domestic.Perceiving themselves as such, prosperous,just by performing domestic ditues was a Victorian characteristic.Women were not supposed to look for any other satisfaction and sense of fullfillment than that of being perfect house administrators.
The last one is not true. Only the second statement mentions how fragile the environment is that coral reefs exist in.The first statement focuses on erosion and pollution as causing the reefs to die.
The boy influences the crystal merchant by following his or her dreams the boy is even teaching him andalusia and sheperding, notice how he also tells the merchant take a chance and seize the opportunity.
