But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet. When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. Once she stopped, and taking off her wedding ring, flung it on the carpet. A husband suffers the disapproval of his wife for not accepting her independent decision. A wife suffers the disapproval of her husband for making an independent decision.ĭ. A husband regrets making a decision without discussing it with his wife first.Ĭ. A wife regrets making a decision without discussing it with her husband first.ī. If you felt that you had to leave home this afternoon, you should have left some suitable explanation for your absence."Ī. "Why, my dear, I should think you'd understand by this time that people don't do such things we've got to observe les convenances if we ever expect to get on and keep up with the procession. I told Joe to say I was out, that was all." "Well I hope you left some suitable excuse," said her husband, somewhat appeased, as he added a dash of cayenne pepper to the soup. I simply felt like going out, and I went out." "Why, what could have taken you out on Tuesday? What did you have to do? The excerpt describes a woman who has not been given the proper training to prepare her for being a wife and mother. The excerpt describes a woman who feels disheartened by the quality of the duties expected in her domestic role.ĭ. The excerpt describes a woman who is angry with her cook for not preparing a meal to meet the family's standards.Ĭ.
The excerpt describes a woman who can only feel happiness when her domestic duties are executed perfectly.ī. Which best explains how the excerpt is evidence of an emerging theme that is central to the novel?Ī. Once she went to her room and studied the cookbook during an entire evening, finally writing out a menu for the week, which left her harassed with a feeling that, after all, she had accomplished no good that was worth the name. Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook. On a few previous occasions she had been completely deprived of any desire to finish her dinner. Read the excerpt from chapter 17 of The Awakening.
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