D. To build ethos
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Answer:
The best answer to the question: What tone does the author create with the word choice? The Yellow Wallpaper, would be: a tone of confusion and also of mystery.
Explanation:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story that was published in 1892 and it was written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story narrates the events in the lives of a young married couple who decide to go on a summer vacation to a mansion in order for the wife to get some much needed rest and isolation from the hard world. However, the situation turns into their disfavor when the young woman locks herself in the old nursery room where the couple had originally chosen to stay, and begins to see the shape of another woman behind the badly scratched yellow wallpaper in the room. All along the story, from beginning to end, Gilman sets a tone of confusion, especially when the events with the woman behind the wallpaper start to happen, and also of mystery. Sometimes it is possible to believe that there is another entity in the story aside from the wife, John, the husband, and his sister, and at others it seems like the two women (the wife and the shadow) are almost the same. The words used, the way they are used, generate that sense of mystery, of suspense, but most of all of confusion to finally understand what is going on.
