Answer:
To help the reader picture the separation between Grand Isle and the coast of Louisiana.
Explanation:
Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" revolves around the story of Edna Pontellier, a woman, and her desire of living her true self and being free to do that. The story deals with themes of independence, feminism, identity, freedom, etc.
The given passage is from the first chapter of the story where the narrator reveals the scene of the cottage at Grand Isle. The Pontelliers had come to the holiday spot to get away from New Orleans for a few days. And when the narrator reveals that the <em>"paper"</em> is a day old and that the <em>"Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle"</em>, we can know that there is some distance between Grand Isle and New Orleans.
Thus, the correct answer is the fourth option.
This story is about two sisters who have different experiences with a chore which was to get water from the spring that they were sent to do by their Mother. The younger of the two (which the mother doesn’t care for that much) had a great experience at the spring when she was to go get water. She got the experience of helping out an elderly women and got rewarded very greatly for being generous and kind by helping her. The elder daughter was sent to the spring upon request of her mother after her mother had seen what the youngest daughter was awarded for helping. The elder daughter didn’t have the greatest of luck, like her younger sister did. The elder daughter was very rude and not helpful towards the lady at the spring which wasn’t helpful towards her own situation.
Answer: Spain and Portugal
Explanation: The subject is the who or what of the sentence. It's what the sentence is about. In this sentence, the places that are occupying the Iberian Peninsula are Spain and Portugal.