illustrate the dramatic change in the author’s circumstances since the payment of the fee described in the first paragraph.
In the first paragraph, the author emphasizes her family’s lack of financial resources by stating that the reading fee was more than a month’s rent. Other information in the passage confirms that the author had little money early in her career. In the final paragraph, the author reveals that her financial circumstances have changed so dramatically that she now has the resources to pay off her mother’s mortgage. By bracketing the passage with narrative details that show this striking change in her circumstances, the author advances her purpose: portraying the importance of her positive obsession to her success as a writer.
