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We can apply it to our own lives because we've all done mistakes and bad things in our lives but we can change our ways for the better like how instead of becoming a greaser Johnny believes that Ponyboy can become good in the world. It kinda shows how in life some people have done bad things but if they change their ways starting now they can still be part of the good in the world. I hope this helps :))
This is an instance of dramatic irony, taking into account that this figure of spech is when the implications of a situation, speech, etc, are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
From the excerpt and the historical context, one can understand that the league of women is constituted by wome from all sorts of different backgrounds, some are "ladies", meaning married women, like Mary Dreier, while others are working class women, like Leonora O'Reilly. This means that <em>the support of weathy league women contributed to the succesful outcome of the female workers' strike. </em>The first option is the right answer.
