Question

Lines 1–5: Read the author byline and identify Oates’s main purpose for writing.

Answer 1

The main purpose of Oates for writing was to show a side of nature to the people which they consider to be beautiful as something which is pointless.

Explanation:

Joyce Carol Oates was a writer who was not in the favor of writing about the nature. He thought that writing about the nature was pointless and condemned the people who wrote about it and thought that nature inspired them.

Even though she herself felt a close connection with Earth and loved soaking up the essence of the nature but she thought that nature can definitely not be a source of wisdom and inspiration.