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What do you mean by "In Streetcar named desire, How does Stanley treat his friends?"
The analogy is meant to show parallels between two sets of words. Fertile is to arable as vague is to clouded. If you understand either pair it can be used to decipher the meaning of the other pair you don't know.
In looking at the answer choices, a few can be dismissed immediately. From the passage it doesn't seem that the dismissal of the narrator's questions affects her too much. Therefore we can eliminate answers that show a drastic change in the narrator's emotions (the narrator feeling inadequate, lacking control, and fearing she may be doomed). The only answer left is that the narrator is dismissed. In gothic literature women are often seen as helpless, innocent victims.
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During the Industrial Revolution, new technologies were being made to improve life. But now, technologies are being improved instead.
We still use some of the same inventions made during the Industrial Revolution now.
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