E. introduce two different attitudes toward femininity
Explanation:
Answer E
Correct. In the first paragraph, the author describes her untroubled and unthinking experience of “the art of being feminine” as a child, noting that she “loved being a little girl” at the time because she identified as and “loved being a fairy princess.” In the second paragraph, the author describes her later experience of femininity as a “bafflingly inconsistent” set of rules representing a “challenge” that had to be mastered in order to pursue her “enormous ambition” in life. These two paragraphs thus introduce two differing attitudes toward femininity that will be weighed in the remainder of the passage: femininity as a fun personal identity and femininity as an exasperating social obligation.
