What does it mean to be exiled? what effect does this have on a person emotionally, financially, and socially?

Which of the narrator's statements in "the yellow wallpaper" suggests that she does not think women are too frail to be intellectual? a.i verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! b.of course i didn't do a thing. jennie sees to everything now. c. i don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and i'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. d. so i walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.

Which is it? the desert is than the mountains? 1. drier 2. more dry

"introduction to oedipus the king": what is most likely the author's intent in writing about the difference(s) between sophocles's play and the original myth on which it's based?