This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is the following:
Which sentences in this excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman suggest that the narrator’s husband has a condescending attitude toward her?
A) What is it, little girl?" he said.
B) "Don't go walking about like that—you'll get cold."
C) I thought it was a good time to talk, so I told him that I really was not gaining here, and that I wished he would take me away.
D) "Why, darling!" said he, "our lease will be up in three weeks, and I can't see how to leave before.
E) Of course if you were in any danger, I could and would, but you really are better, dear, whether you can see it or not. I am a doctor, dear, and I know."
F) "Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug, "she shall be as sick as she pleases!
Answer:
The sentences that suggest the narrator's husband has a condescending attitude toward her are:
A) What is it, little girl?" he said.
E) Of course if you were in any danger, I could and would, but you really are better, dear, whether you can see it or not. I am a doctor, dear, and I know."
F) "Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug, "she shall be as sick as she pleases!
Explanation:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The narrator and main character is a woman who has quite a wild imagination. However, she has become a captive, a prisoner of her own circumstances as a woman.
<u>Her husband behaves in a way that implies he is a master, someone to be obeyed under all circumstances. His way of addressing her is condescending, that is, pretending to be concerned about her but betraying his feeling of superiority over her. That is what options A, E and F show. Options A and F show, among other things, how the husband uses "little" to refer to his wife. It is as if he sees her as a child, as less capable than he is. That is, of course, confirmed by what he says in letter E. He does not care about what she feels; only what he knows is important.</u>
