I think the answer is d. Not sure if wrong, sorry.
The correct answer should be Edith Wharton.
Ellen Glasgow, Ella Cather, and Mary J. Holmes dealt with other topics such as world war 1, slavery, civil war, life in the south, and other things while Edith Wharton wrote about social lives.
It expresses that the people are working together to make a more perfect union and make the United States of America a legitimate country with a constitution. The people in power are chosen by the general population, so it's a form of representative democracy.
it must be once a bear has decided to attack however nothing can be done.
because if a bear attacks you fall to the ground roll up like a ball and cover you neck and head.