Answer:
The anecdote at the beginning of Tennan's article rightly presents the topic she will be dealing with in the paper. This anecdote also illustrates the issue that will be the main focus of the whole text.
Explanation:
An anecdote is a certain short story about a real person and real incident, often an amusing one. In this regard, the author of "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" also uses an anecdote to start her text.
In Deborah Tennan's "Sex, Lies, and Conversation", she recounts about a certain gathering one particular evening in a women's group where the men were also invited. Though the topic of the discussion was on the issue of men not talking to their wives. The man in particular had been talking and even offering examples and anecdotes while his wife sat quietly nearby. But as it turns out, the woman was the talker of the house while the man is usually quiet at home. This was quite funny, considering that men were presumed to be less talkative than the womenfolk, but as the man had shown, he is talkative indeed, more than his wife, especially during the gathering. This anecdote about the talkative man illustrates the topic of misunderstanding between couples.
Which statements. What story?
The death described in the poem Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies is a meaningful one. Usually, when somebody dies drowning into the sea, the dead body is either eaten up by sea creatures or gets decayed. But the dead body of Ferdinand's father has neither decayed nor has been eaten up by the sea creature