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Read this excerpt from Scene 3 of The Glass Menagerie. AMANDA: Come back here, Tom Wingfield! I'm not through talking to you!

TOM: Oh, go—

LAURA [desperately]: Tom!

AMANDA: You're going to listen, and no more insolence from you! I'm at the end of my patience! [He comes back toward her.]

TOM: What do you think I'm at? Aren't I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother? I know, I know. It seems unimportant to you, what I'm doing—what I want to do—having a little difference between them! You don't think that—

What is most likely the meaning of insolence?

back talk

coarseness

raging

sarcasm

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