Read the quote from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. Sometimes a woman would say “I feel empty somehow . . . incomplete.”
Or she would say, “I feel as if I don’t exist.” Sometimes she blotted out the feeling with a tranquilizer. Which best describes the connotation of “blotted” in the excerpt? It has a positive connotation, because it implies the women were able to erase the feelings of emptiness. It has a positive connotation, because it implies the emptiness was able to be replaced with happiness. It has a negative connotation, because it implies women were actually strengthening the feelings of emptiness. It has a negative connotation, because it implies women were merely temporarily lessening the feelings of emptiness.
It has a negative connotation, because it implies women were merely temporarily lessening the feelings of emptiness.
Explanation:
The phrasal verb blot out means to hide, conceal, cover or mask. Thus, according to the quote from Betty Friedan’s "The Feminine Mystique," the women would take medicinal drugs to temporarily reduce their feelings of loneliness, incompleteness and worthlessness
