Read the following passage from “The Women’s Bath.” Which of these ideas is most closely related to the theme in these lines? *
"Although girls usually side with their mother, I had a strong feeling of sympathy for my grandmother: old age had caught up with her since her husband had died some time before and left her a widow, and little by little her authority in the home shrank as my mother's authority gradually extended. It is the law of life: one takes, then one hands over to another in one's turn. But that does not mean we obey the law readily and willingly."
This passage would most likely be associated with the theme of authority, in the sense that the mom (who appears more frequently in other passages) relinquishes hers.
