I’m going to try to give this to you via comment section because it includes too many words.
(Now, this is something I pulled off the web. You could turn this in, but I don’t recommend that. Just read over this instead of the actual book if you don’t have enough time, and rewrite some of it in your own words, or rewrite it all yourself based on this.)
Answer:
A. They are compelled by something appealing but wasteful, resulting in their demise
Explanation:
The word "profligacy" means to be excessively wasteful of resources. So, the best interpretation of the following quote is that the people are compelled by something appealing but wasteful, resulting in their demise.
Because from the quote, the people are described as "not knowing what to do with their gold" which indicates that they had no concrete and workable plan on how to invest their gold and they became wasteful and perished.
As The Feminine Mystique is a purely feminist book, is pretty easy to think that Friedan is giving us a feminist view on the way women were seen in the sixties. Feminism intention is to find equality among sexes and what Friedan does in this extract, is to show the key terms releated to feminism: "suburban wife", "dream image", "freed by science and labor", "healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned about her husband and children".
Answer:
Because they are living things. They breathe and walk like humans.
Explanation:
