RC Drill Set 3, Question 6
While best known for her fiction, Edith Wharton(453 more words not shown)
The contrast between interior designer(13 more words not shown)
- Abetween artistic and(4 more words not shown)
- Bbetween artists working(7 more words not shown)
- Cbetween the short(7 more words not shown)
- Dbetween the constraints(14 more words not shown)
- Ebetween feminists seeking(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The broader discussion connects design with social constraints, so that social parallel is the first one I think of.
What we’re looking for
But this question points specifically to the contrast in paragraph 3. An interior designer works within an existing structure; an architect has a freer hand. We need to see which comparison the paragraph itself builds from those two roles.
Working the answers
- A
Artistic and social values aren't presented as the two sides of this contrast. The distinction concerns approaches to creating, not two kinds of value within literature.
- BCorrect
An artist working within a traditional genre resembles the designer working within a house. More experimental artists resemble the architect with greater freedom. The next sentence makes the connection explicit by aligning this preference with Wharton's rejection of movements that abandon closed forms (paragraph 3). We don't have to assume experimental artists literally invent new genres; the shared issue is freedom from an existing framework.
- C
The short story provides an example of a constrained form, but this answer compares forms themselves. The paragraph connects the designer's and architect's approaches with artists' approaches to those forms.
- D
Wharton's fiction isn't presented as freedom from constraints. It too balances convention and autonomy, so this proposed life-versus-fiction opposition breaks down.
- E
This resembles the earlier social comparison, which makes it tempting. But paragraph 3 directly connects the design contrast to artistic movements and literary forms. B captures that local comparison rather than substituting the discussion of feminist strategies.
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