Answer: Women feel pressure to conform to society’s expectations.
In this excerpt, Frank is defending her right to go out alone. As a woman, however, she is not supposed to, and Fritz reminds her of that. She says that is she goes on with that behaviour, people will talk about her. This is an example of how women feel pressured to conform to society's expectations. Frank is being pressured by Fritz, while Fritz has been pressured by society at large.
An allegory is a story that uses characters and settings as symbols that carry a deeper meaning beyond the obvious meaning of the story. Which excerptfrom Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" best reveals the allegorical nature of this short story?
<span>d) With a shuddering impulse, that showed her a woman still, the widow clasped her skinny hands before her face, and wished that the coffin-lid were over it, since it could be no longer beautiful.</span>
A is the actually correct answer