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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour Brought to you by hysteria It's what happens when
- 00:08
history class gets too excited All right check the following
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passage and we're just going to skim it okay And
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we're just skim skim skim And where Well you were
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right in the beginning of paragraph to the narrator says
- 00:20
that she cannot repeat the first sentence to a living
- 00:23
soul in order to what And here the pencil answers
- 00:30
brother All right we're going to have to do a
- 00:32
little reading between the lines If you want to get
- 00:34
into the mind of our narrator So let's kick this
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off by mixing option c Now the narrator does seem
- 00:40
a little insecure about her opinions especially on the subject
- 00:43
of whether or not she's depressed in hysterical but that's
- 00:46
not the reason she can't repeat her story to another
- 00:49
living person Well dee won't do the trick either Narrator
- 00:54
isn't trying to emphasize that she could trust and confide
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in her husband It seems like she could only trust
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and confide in her words now dead paper Oh and
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you know all the people who read this story over
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the years He is attempting answer because the narrator is
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sharing a secret but this option this is something that's
- 01:11
more important is the only choice that totally gets it
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The narrator tells us how her husband is a respected
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doctor Who's declared that she's not really sick in the
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time period in which this passage was written it was
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not okay for a woman to go around town questioning
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her husband especially when it had to do with his
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professional judgment But hey at least the paper she's writing 00:01:31.3 --> [endTime] on one question Her sanity
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