What happens when people are overly motivated by what other people think and say?

Is this personification? "i have played the fox,now i must play the cat of the fable"

What time of day would you expect to see a first quarter moonrise?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.