Question

I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me. But I find I get pretty tired when I try. It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now. I wish I could get well faster. But I must not think about that. This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!
Which part of this excerpt best demonstrates the narrator’s social alienation?

A: “I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.”
B: “It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.”
C: "When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit.”
D: "This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!”

Answer 1

I'd say B: “It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.”

Answer 2

B).

This quote directly gives the reader a look into the loneliness that the author was feeling, because the author directly states that they are discouraged from lack of companionship. Also, the specification that they are discouraged from receiving no interaction from their work in specific further proves the point, because it is something THEY worked on, and THEY themselves are isolated.

Because B directly states that the author is feeling alienated solely by saying that they were discouraged, B would be the correct answer. :)