In chapters "My First Supper" and "In the Bath" from the book Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, the author takes the reader
through a series of events beginning with the evening meal, the musical performance activity, bath time, bedtime, and then the next morning. What impact does this chronological narrative sequence have?
A. It shows that conditions in the hospital are getting worse over time.
B. It demonstrates that the hospital is well-run by the standards of a century ago.
C. It allows the reader to follow along as a typical day brings one abuse after another.
D. It gives the impression that Bly is trapped in the hospital with no hope of release.
Right away in the chapter "My First Supper", Bly explains how she and the patients are ordered around, and talked to in a cruel manner. They are served terrible food, and are stripped, and forced to take freezing cold baths. The environment as a whole is abusive and unlivable, and Bly shows that is clear to tell after the events of just one day.
