Question a69e40
“The Young Girl” is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. In the story, the narrator takes an unnamed seventeen-year-old girl and her younger brother out for a meal. In describing the teenager, Mansfield frequently contrasts the character’s pleasant appearance with her unpleasant attitude, as when Mansfield writes of the teenager, blank
Which quotation from “The Young Girl” most effectively illustrates the claim?
“we saw, after that, she couldn’t stand this place a moment longer, and, indeed, she jumped up and turned away while we went through the vulgar act of paying for the tea.”
“She didn’t even take her gloves off. She lowered her eyes and drummed on the table. When a faint violin sounded she winced and bit her lip again. Silence.”
“we heard her murmur, ‘we can’t bear flowers on a table.’ They had evidently been giving her intense pain, for she positively closed her eyes as we moved them away.”
“While we waited she took out a little, gold powder-box with a mirror in the lid, shook the poor little puff as though she loathed it, and dabbed her lovely nose.”