RC Drill Set 3, Question 5
While best known for her fiction, Edith Wharton(453 more words not shown)
In the passage, the author(3 more words not shown)
- Apoint out how(8 more words not shown)
- Bexplain how Wharton(9 more words not shown)
- Ccontrast Wharton's life(8 more words not shown)
- Didentify the origin(7 more words not shown)
- Eshow that, contrary(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We already predicted the main point around a connection: Wharton's architectural writing, fiction, and social views share an attitude toward constraints. An existing framework can limit someone and still leave room for meaningful expression or advancement.
What we’re looking for
For this primary-purpose question, look for a version of that common idea. The answer might describe the thread joining these areas rather than explicitly call it an analogy.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Self-expression within established conventions is that thread. The designer works within the house, Wharton pursues independence within society, and her stories allow expression within a traditional genre. This isn't exactly the comparison wording we predicted, but it captures what the comparison reveals.
- B
Her financial success illustrates her approach; it isn't the subject of a career biography. This also frames her achievement as overcoming constraints rather than working within structures she retained.
- C
The comparison is with other feminist approaches, not a set of traditional stereotypes about women. And that comparison alone would leave out much of the architectural and literary discussion.
- D
We aren't told what first sparked her interest in architecture or design. The question concerns how her views connect, not where an interest originated.
- E
The writer does affirm that she was a feminist. But proving that label is only one part of the discussion, not the purpose that includes design and short-story form.
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