Read the passage from Initiation. "Remember the part about talking back and smiling," Louise Fullerton had put in, laughing. She
was another celebrity in high school, pretty and dark and Vice-President of the student council. "You can't say anything unless your big sister asks you something or tells you to talk to someone. And you can't smile, no matter how you're dying to." The girls had laughed a little nervously, and then the bell had rung for the beginning of afternoon classes. Which phrase from the passage is the best example of indirect characterization? another celebrity in high school pretty and dark you can’t smile girls had laughed a little nervously
I would say the correct answer is girls had laughed a little nervously. Based on this clause, we can deduce something about their personality, and that is that they are happy kids who want to laugh all the time but they are not allowed to. The other options are either direct characterization or not characterization at all.
