Read the following quote from Wharton's short story "April Showers": Theodora found herself in the wood beyond the schoolhouse. She was kneeling on the ground, brushing aside the dead leaves and pressing her lips to the little bursting green things that pushed up eager tips through last year's decay. It was spring--spring! Everything was crowding toward the light, and in her own heart hundreds of germinating hopes had burst into sudden leaf. She wondered if the thrust of those little green fingers hurt the surface of the earth as her springing raptures hurt--yes, actually hurt!--her hot, constricted breast!

1What aspect of feminism is Wharton pointing out in this passage?

2Women have a connection with the earth that men do not have.

3Women are more prone to silly emotions and unrealistic expectations than men.

4Women are more sensitive to nature, birth, and death than men are.