This part of the excerpt seems to be correct as it reveals that the diet alone is responsible for his ninth birthday: "It had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all."
By saying that they are genuinely happy for his return
Answer: Sentences 3 and 5.
Explanation:
<em>"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment</em>" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, centered around a doctor who is convinced that he received a particular kind of water from the Fountain of Youth.
In this excerpt, Dr. Heidegger and four people have lost their youth. They drank water which made them young only for a short period of time. Although four people are sad over their lost youth, Dr. Heidegger is aware now that they should be careful what they wish for, as they just might get it. In Sentence 3, a woman wishes to die because she cannot look at her skinny and wrinkled hands. She cannot stand the fact that she is old.
In Sentence 5, however, it is seen that Dr. Heidegger takes a different perspective on this issue: he believes that they should have never got their youth at all.
These two sentences reflect the central theme of the passage, but explore it from a different perspective.
Edna Pontellier was a controversial character. She upset many nineteenth century expectations for women and their supposed roles. One of her most shocking actions was her denial of her role as a mother and wife. Kate Chopin displays this rejection gradually, but the concept of motherhood is major theme throughout the novel.
Edna is fighting against the societal and natural structures of motherhood that force her to be defined by her title as wife of Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and Etienne Pontellier, instead of being her own, self-defined individual. Through Chopin’s focus on two other female characters, Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Edna’s options of life paths are exhibited.
These women are the examples that the men around Edna contrast her with and from whom they obtain their expectations for her. Edna, however, finds both role models lacking and begins to see that the life of freedom and individuality that she wants goes against both society and nature. The inevitability of her fate as a male-defined creature brings her to a state of despair, and she frees herself the only way she can, through suicide.
