Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." she was not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself, nor was she striving to explain to her satisfaction the motive of her action. she was not thinking at all. she seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility. which topic is represented in the excerpt? the joys and pitfalls of motherhood the brief rejection of an obligatory role the subconscious desire for luxury the pressures of a forceful society

The answer is B (filler text)

The brief rejection of an obligatory role.

Explanation:

Kate Chopin's short story "A Pair of Silk Stockings" tells of how a mother's life had been so overcome with her children's needs that she has no time or chance to indulge on her own self. The character of Mrs. Sommers is someone with whom almost all mothers will relate with.

Mrs. Sommers had recently got a fortune of fifteen dollars, which at that time was a fortune. She did not know how to make use of it not because she is rich, but more because there are a lot of things to be taken care of. She decided that she will get things for the children first but on the day of the shopping, an impulsive decision led her to spend everything on herself. The excerpt in the question shows a brief rejection of her obligatory role as care giver and mother to her children and family. Instead, she indulged on herself and did everything that she hadn't planned on doing.

the nurse was the one who kept interrupting the balcony scene.

romeo decides to spend the night with juliet before leaving verona due to being exiled for killing

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)